Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disease, Washington State's King County, which includes Seattle, last December allocated $120,000 for a community-wide chlamydia-screening program. Says the county health department's Dr. Hunter Handsfield, who heads the effort: "The problem nationwide is that chlamydia is an out-of-sight, out-of-mind phenomenon." Only when more public health officials recognize and face up to it, he says, will the silent epidemic be brought under control...
...celebration of Goetz is understandable--he took on the punks and the system--but it retains a curiously surreal quality: the characters, hero and villains alike, are all abstract, marquee characters. Indeed, the whole Goetz phenomenon is life gone to the movies. The tabloids call the hero the Death Wish vigilante. The bad guys are out of A Clockwork Orange. The subway set is borrowed from Escape from New York. And now the audience picks up the chant from Network, "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more...
...cover story, "Androgynous Zones," written by Peter Engel '81, describes a new phenomenon of cross-sexual fashion is society, from movies to music to department stores...
...French advertising executive, Jacques Seguela, describes the phenomenon of the new America with a certain dogmatic Gallic eloquence: "The country that originally invented the consumer society is now inventing the communications society. Why has this been possible in America and not elsewhere? Because the U.S. is the only country where youth is credible. Individuals plunged into their professional lives in their 20s and are winners at 25 or 30. In France and elsewhere in Europe, that is impossible. You cannot go to a banker and say, 'I have a project involving imagination or new technology,' and ask for money...
...outfitted accordingly in mustache, blue jeans and T shirts, he began saying as early as 1978 that "no one seems to know how to handle music very well on TV." NBC frowned on such views, so Pittman shifted to Warner. "Music is not frivolous, it is a major phenomenon," he says...