Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...punch line is snowballing into a social phenomenon independent of product or sponsor. While such commercial catch phrases as "This Bud's for you," "Reach out and touch someone" and "Nothing beats a great pair of L'eggs" have become well known, few have been adopted so rapidly into everyday speech or been so thoroughly merchandised...
...talks of the "brief brilliant reign" of reason in the 18th century, but it did not enlighten those resolutely wrong colonial experts in England. To see reason at its worst, she might have examined at more length the self-destructive phenomenon that she only touches on in her introduction: the French Revolution...
...Katherine, "even though the music business would list it as rhythm and blues because of him being black." The combined evidence of the bottom line, the hard listen and the long view is difficult to resist: Jackson is the biggest thing since the Beatles. He is the hottest single phenomenon since Elvis Presley. He just may be the most popular black singer ever...
...Richie is the most elegant songwriter in the neighborhood. Donna Summer can be spectacular; Prince is incandescent; Rick James cataclysmic; rap groups are the rough conscience of the streets. But commercially and aesthetically, they all revolve in separate orbits that only occasionally intersect. Jackson is a world apart, a phenomenon that exists in much the same way that the star himself lives. In isolation...
...aluminum and zinc. In May, U.S. forest experts will travel to West Germany to compare notes with European scientists; in turn, German researchers will visit the U.S. in June. Says Fred White, staff forester with the North Carolina division of forest resources in Raleigh: "Initial answers for this phenomenon will probably be a combination of total nonsense, the truth and lots in between." -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by Jay Branegan/Washington, with other bureaus