Word: trend
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the inevitable lapses into sentimentality, the recent trend toward family films is a welcome change. It has allowed various actors to display previously untapped aspects of their talent. The danger is that screenwriters and directors will run out of insightful social commentary on the subject, and Pacino's contribution, Author! Author! bears the warning symptoms. The film constantly struggles between a desire to fit into a mold and an equivalent attempt to break...
...spied coming down the corridor in the morning in a brown suit, he was in a bad mood. Aide Tom Stephens flashed the word all through the White House to beware. GQ's Haber insists that Kennedy's fondness for a two-button coat began a trend that drove three-button models out of the market. Kennedy also put the last nail in the coffin of the men's hat industry. He was proud of his bushy hair and refused to wear a hat, despite the pleadings of the industry. Gerald Ford's too-short striped...
Originally proposed by Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, the meeting was an attempt to reverse the trend of what a city official described as "several years of deteriorating relations" between Cambridge and Harvard...
...Ease of illustration. Graphic impact. "Video is the new printing press," Publishing Entrepreneur Nicolas Charney likes to say, but it is not necessary to bury Gutenberg to appreciate the possibilities of magazines on video and to spot, in five new entries, the beginnings of what seems to be a trend...
More disturbing, some scientists have cautioned that if the Arctic Ocean is not replenished by fresh water, it will get salt ier, its freezing point will drop, and the icecap will begin to melt, possibly starting a global warming trend. Other scientists fear that just the opposite may occur: as the flow of warmer fresh water is reduced, the polar ice may expand. In any case, British Climatologist Michael Kelly of the University of East Anglia sees an ironic consequence: changes in polar winds and currents might reduce rainfall in the very regions to benefit from the river...