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Word: phenomenon (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rocky Horror phenomenon began and almost ended in April of 1976. After a disastrous premiere at New York's Waverly Theater in Greenwich Village, managers relegated the "flop" to the midnight...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Some Terrible Thrills | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

Piro, who was there when it all started, says it was an "amazing" phenomenon. "It was one of those right-time, right-place things. One day, somebody cracked a one-liner back at the movie. The next time, somebody tried to top it. Soon, people were dressing up as characters, and maybe getting up and acting a part or two. All these little things happened spontaneously and it grew. It really took...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Some Terrible Thrills | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

...When we see an audience enjoying us, looking at us, and not the movie, it's really a special feeling," says Karen M. Agostino who spent nearly two years with live revues in New York and Cambridge. "It's such a phenomenon. There's nothing like...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Some Terrible Thrills | 12/11/1987 | See Source »

...major reasons for going to college was to get away from whoever it was in my family who was in charge of putting the hair on the toothpaste. (They all denied it, of course.) Yet the phenomenon continued throughout freshman year. At night I would check the toothpaste carefully, and put the cover on tightly. Every morning I would rush to the sink and unscrew the toothpaste, and there it was--a series of brown hairs stuck smack dab in the middle of the tube opening...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Hair Today, Still There Tomorrow | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

...next year, with different roommates, the phenomenon continued. Could my family be so ruthless as to continue the joke, admittedly funny for the first 10 years, throughout my entire college career? I decided it was time to confront them. I gathered my entire family and my roommates together for a meeting...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Hair Today, Still There Tomorrow | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

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