Word: phenomenons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City-based Reporter-Researcher Elaine Dutka interviewed music-industry performers, critics and producers in an effort to put the Jackson phenomenon in perspective. Says she: "Jackson is a master entrepreneur. He has an uncanny sense of what the public wants and surrounds himself with top-notch artists and advisers...
...moment Hartmania infused the campaign. Newspaper pundits and political analysts, professional know-it-alls caught knowing almost nothing, chased after the phenomenon. Their continuing embarrassing bewilderment made many of them uneasy. "You can feel a terrible shaking of the earth," said New Republic Editor Hendrik Hertzberg, "as new conventional wisdom struggles to be born." New York Times Columnist Tom Wicker observed that "the publicity that the press gave to the 'upset' of its own erroneous expectations" was responsible for Hart's sudden, starry prominence...
Portents of a huge phenomenon are not found exclusively on sales graphs or balance sheets, however. When Jackson's hair was burned in an accident during the filming of a Pepsi-Cola commercial in late January, the mishap made headline news around the world. Once completed, two Pepsi commercials featuring Jackson and his brothers premiered on MTV. The next day on their national morning news shows, CBS, ABC and NBC all aired one or both spots as hot stories, not paid...
...some ways the Jonathan Schell of anti-Reaganism. Dallek, like the antinuke writer, is trying to assess the psychological impact of a horrible danger--in this case, Reagan's policies. Moreover, like Schell, Dallek describes in encyclopedic detail the features of his awful portrait of the Reagan phenomenon--a survey which reveals journalists and pundits sometimes shocked, sometimes disbelieving, and sometimes simply sardonically amused. The value of the Dallek survey is that, like Schell's Fate of The Earth, it shows the breadth of the Reagan game--the extent to which his is a government of symbols, the depth...
...Blacks as largely the result of the maladaptive, chaotic, cultural patterns of low-income Blacks. This view holds that the high Black poverty rate persists because lower-income Blacks exhibit a set of attitudes and norms which prevent them from escaping poverty. Proponents of this view single out one phenomenon in particular as evidence of the self-perpetuating nature of Black poverty; unwed pregnancy. Indeed in 1981 fully 55 percent of all Black children were born out of wedlock, up from 24 percent in 1962 and 38 percent...