Word: popularized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hormone-treated beef. The broader battle cry of these rural Robin Hoods is their rejection of "la mal-bouffe"--lousy food, as symbolized by the famous American burger chain. Carted off in handcuffs, Bove spent 20 days in prison and emerged as one of France's most popular heroes. Soon he was giving countless TV and newspaper interviews and crisscrossing the country to address admiring groups of farmers, consumers and ecologists. "The judge did us a great service by throwing me in jail," Bove says. "We couldn't have asked for better publicity...
With his walrus mustache, twinkling eyes and charismatic way with words, Bove, 46, seems like a French reincarnation of Poland's Lech Walesa, the plucky union leader who helped topple communism. Bove has become a popular symbol of the fear and loathing many Europeans feel in the face of American-dominated globalization that threatens their culture and national identity...
...call mathematics a fin-de-siecle craze would be a bit of an exaggeration, but there is something remarkable about how the most arcane of academic disciplines has finally implanted itself firmly in popular culture. The trend began in 1994 when Princeton University's Andrew Wiles proved Fermat's Last Theorem, a cantankerous problem that had defeated the best mathematical minds for more than 350 years. Not since Archimedes ran naked from his bathtub shouting "Eureka!" has a mathematician received more publicity. PEOPLE magazine put him on its list of "the 25 most intriguing people of the year...
...which is not entirely due to her pixelated butt. "Lara's an enduring icon for adolescents," says game analyst Jeremy Schwartz of Forrester Research, "but she's also popular with younger kids, who aren't really thinking, 'Wow, she's a babe...
...could put white paint through as many adventures as Robert Ryman does in his snow-flurry abstractions. As for his pieties, they turn out sometimes to be the same ones fundamental to civil society. By nothing less than an actual vote among Post readers, Saying Grace was his most popular canvas. In a flyblown city restaurant, a boy and his grandmother bow their heads to pray while everybody else looks on. If the picture is about the secular world making space for the spiritual, which it plainly is, it's also about the larger notion of every tribe in American...