Word: tulip
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...misunderstand. There is still a nuclear problem. There are environmental problems. But there is a difference between a problem and panic. The next time you find yourself in the midst of some national hysteria, remember the tulip craze that swept Holland three centuries ago, an orgy of panicked financial speculation in which land and houses and gold were all traded for . . . tulips. At the mania's peak, a single Semper Augustus tulip could fetch 20 town houses...
...probably led the way. But why was love hatched in the process, since it was presumably unnecessary to get things started in the first place? Furthermore, what has sustained romance -- that odd collection of tics and impulses -- over the centuries? Most mass hallucinations, such as the 17th century tulip mania in Holland, flame out fairly rapidly when people realize the absurdity of what they have been doing and, as the common saying goes, come to their senses. When people in love come to their senses, they tend to orbit with added energy around each other and look more helplessly loopy...
...Dean thrashed his head in headbanger circles as he played. Gene wandered to the rear of the stage and set up his microphone. "I'm doin' backup vocals on this one," he explained. They did "Tick," noisier and faster than the album's version. They did "Marble Tulip Juicy Tree," with more vocal tricks by Gene. They did songs nobody knew, and songs everybody was requesting. They talked to the audience the whole time. We talked back...
Franck always gets his way. Franck wants swansat the wedding, so the Bankses splurge on swans.Franck doesn't want "chip" chicken at the wedding,so the Bankses splurge on seafood. Franck wants torepaint the Banks' house, remove all theirfurniture, install a tulip border...you get theidea. If Annie is going to have a lohhhvlahwahhhdink, George is going to have to cough up the$1200 for Franck's kek, even though, as George soinsensitively points out, a kek is just flour andwater. "Wilcome to za Nahntees, Moostah Bahnks!"Franck cackles with tyrannical glee. So Nina tellsGeorge to stop being such...
...TULIP TIME '90, HOLLAND, MICH. This bud's for you. Tiptoe through eight miles of glorious blossoms at this annual Dutch jamboree that features 1,400 costumed klompen dancers, windmills, parades and literally millions of tulips...