Word: trended
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...economy may be dreary, but the fashion forecast remains bright. Last season's monochromatic gray trend is fast fading from memory as orange emerges to punch up summer wardrobes. The sunny hue first appeared on Miuccia Prada's fall 2007 runway, and then Raf Simons picked it up for his spring 2008 collection for Jil Sander. Now orange is turning up on everything from Pucci's new sunglass collection to Furla's braided-handle tote and Louis Vuitton's modernist cuff. And on an elaborate gown at Dior's haute couture show, the hue oozed regal glamour. In the home...
...have met, the classes we have taken, and the extracurricular activities we have poured our hearts into. Understandably then, graduating is an emotional personal moment, and consequently, during it, expensive keepsakes should be the last things on on one’s mind. However, there is a growing trend toward reducing the personal importance of the occasion to potential purchases. For example, Harvard encourages families to send out graduation announcements, in the same way one would announce the birth of one’s child, and to purchase class rings that generally exceed $400—not chump change. Even...
...example, that the Cold War was over - although there was not much news in that observation, first made at an equivalent summit 18 years ago by President Bush's father and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The document affirms their commitment to improve relations on all fronts, but the trend in U.S.-Russian relations may be moving the two countries further apart than closer together...
...Rififi was a trend-setter but not a total original. John Huston's heist movie The Asphalt Jungle came out in 1950. And two years before Rififi, Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear sent crooks from several nations on a desperate mission: driving trucks loaded with dynamite across treacherous South America roads, with death waiting at each hairpin turn. (Bosley Crowther in The New York Times: "You sit there waiting for the theatre to explode...
...these bandwagon fans succeed in ruining the self-pitying and self-gratifying Boston Red Sox tradition, it will be no great loss. But if this trend accelerates, baseball will, like other professional sports, sink deeper into the ignominy of our soulless entertainment culture...