Word: trending
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little ironic, isn't it, that popular culture has so suddenly elevated the former Secretary of Education who advocated the tried and true classics? The same one who once berated Harvard for letting trendy Core courses displace Aristotle, has suddenly become a trend...
Typical of the trend is New York City's Dial-A-Dinner. Its clients order by telephone from the menu of one of the 30 restaurants on its list. About an hour later, a tuxedo-clad waiter appears, bearing large shopping bags full of plastic containers and a bill -- usually well over $100 -- payable by credit card. "I'm known as the doctor of delivery," declares David Blum, 31, the entrepreneur who started Dial-A-Dinner 18 months ago. Now he has 22 people, 15 cars and six vans, all radio equipped, hurtling about 200 dinners a night across Manhattan...
...their incredible variety of animal and plant life. If the forests vanish, so will more than 1 million species -- a significant part of earth's biological diversity and genetic heritage. Moreover, the burning of the Amazon could have dramatic effects on global weather patterns -- for example, heightening the warming trend that may result from the greenhouse effect. "The Amazon is a library for life sciences, the world's greatest pharmaceutical laboratory and a flywheel of climate," says Thomas Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution. "It's a matter of global destiny...
...trend is not confined to cassettes. Almost one-third of the country's 24,000 movie screens are also bombarding patrons with commercials. "We are purveyors of entertainment that sells," says Terry Laughren, president of Screenvision Cinema Network, the largest distributor of theater advertising...
...restaurant? Would footloose Graham come back to Baton Rouge to find a love he lost nine years before? Of course they are not real people, and the difference is crucial in this talk-as-sex era. Real people talk back, act up, walk out. So let's leave the trend where it belongs: onscreen, in the season's smartest, funniest real- love films...