Another factor that may hold hope is for parallel recognition is, as one man says it: `` that the fad for educating top people along managerial lines is yielding to the technically trained approach ''.

Its bulk quality is behind one of the latest fad diets in Asia, the kanten ( the Japanese word for agar-agar ) diet.

With the publication of the Expanded Edition in 2000, the fad for acronym-based names had long since faded, and the writer and the publisher both felt that the forced acronym had become irrelevant.

Babcock's rules simplified the game to make it easier for Americans to take up, and his version was common through the mahjong fad of the 1920s.

On the advice of Graham Greene, who told him that paperback books were a passing fad that wouldn't last, Peake opted for the £ 10.

* The 1985 film Perfect depicts John Travolta as a reporter for Rolling Stone, covering the health club fad of the time.

Many of the terms associated with ragtime have inexact definitions, and are defined differently by different experts ; the definitions are muddled further by the fact that publishers often labelled pieces for the fad of the moment rather than the true style of the composition.

In the early 1900s, the wristwatch, originally called a Wristlet, was reserved for women and considered more of a passing fad than a serious timepiece.

That fad, they assumed, had ended, and the shelf space would be reassigned to different products ; as a result, many retailers ignored video games for several years.

Shortly after, Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones used a sitar in " Paint It, Black " and a brief fad began for using the instrument in pop songs.

Shooter created several characters for the Legion of Super-Heroes including Karate Kid, a teenage superhero who predated the martial arts fad of the 1970s ; Ferro Lad, a teenage superhero who can transform to living iron ; and Princess Projectra, who could cast realistic illusions.

The scheme enlists the aid of a country music singer, who creates several theme songs for the war ; a " fad king "; and a costume designer, who helps create a fictional special forces unit to fight the war's supposed battles.

The fad for bathing in and drinking spring waters eventually passed.

The general fad is speculated to have existed in spoken or informal written U. S. English for a decade or more before its appearance in newspapers.

The oldies format was an attempt to recreate the station's history as a popular music station ( and was part of a nationwide fad of " real oldies " formats on AM radio stations in the early 2000s ( decade )), and while they maintained the official WWKB calls for station identification, they also played the original " WKBW Buffalo " jingles and featured many of the classic WKBW jocks including Armstrong and Neaverth.

His poems plunge from perhaps ironic piety to equally ironic blasphemy ; they reflect, more than anything else, his interest in mediæval Latin literature, and his works led to a fad for late Latin literature among authors like Joris-Karl Huysmans.

In particular, the graceful, lapidary and atmospheric genre paintings by Richard Parkes Bonington created an international fad for watercolor painting, especially in England and France, in the 1820s.

As the adoption of the term in America coincided with a fashion among teenage girls in the early 1920s for wearing unbuckled galoshes a widespread false etymology held that they were called " flappers " because they flapped when they walked, as they wore their overshoes or galoshes unfastened, showing that they defied convention in a manner similar to the 21st century fad for untied shoelaces.

In 1789, Thomas Jefferson is fabled to have returned from 5 years in Europe with a waffle iron, setting off a fad for waffle frolics ( waffle parties ), though waffle frolics had been documented as early as 1744 in New Jersey, and the Dutch had long since established waffles in New Amsterdam ( New York City ).

First released in Japan in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump in 1998, Hikaru no Go achieved tremendous success, spawning a popular Go fad of almost unprecedented proportions ; it received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 2000 and its creators received the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2003 for the series.

This sword and sandal fad continued for about six years, until the new fad for spaghetti Westerns took over the attention of the Italian cinema industry.

Inferno is 20th Century Fox's first, yet belated, foray into the world of 3-D film, a prevalent cinema fad in the 1950s.

Cardboard glasses with earpieces and larger filters were used to watch Bwana Devil, the feature-length color 3-D film that premiered on 26 November 1952 and ignited the brief but intense 3-D fad of the 1950s.

Additional significant trends of the 1980s include Headbands, Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses ( popularized in the film " Top Gun "), Ray-Ban Wayfarer sunglasses ( popularized in the films " Risky Business " and " The Blues Brothers "), Swatch watches, Slap bracelets ( popular fad among children, pre-teens and teenagers in the late 1980s and early 1990s and was available in a wide variety of patterns and colors ), and the Rubik's Cube ( became a popular fad throughout the decade ).

The " rocketry fad " culminated with Fritz Lang's 1929 film Die Frau im Mond (" Woman in the Moon "), which became the first realistic depiction of spaceflight in cinematic history.

In 1957, the movie Lo Waist Gang made him popular, and the film was such a big hit that low-waist pants became a fad.

Juicing has become popular in niche markets, such as those interested in alternative medicine, fad diets, or gourmet foods, due to word-of-mouth, mainstream celebrity marketing, a heavy internet presence, and a documentary film entitled Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.

The film Coyote Ugly ushered in a fad of bartop dancing establishments.

In the 1970s, Allen returned to cinema screens and was the most popular producer associated with the decade's fad for the disaster film genre.

Dolphy also made spy film parodies when it became a fad, beginning with Dolpinger ( 1965 ) as Agent 1-2-3 ( a parody of the James Bond movie Goldfinger ).

The film is set in the Venice, Los Angeles, California area at the height of the quad roller skating fad.

Almost undoubtedly made quickly before the roller-skating fad of the late-1970s and early-1980s ended, the film was originally led by Linda Blair and Canadian actor David Kennedy, with whom Blair was dating at the time.

A 1969 film about the fad, They Shoot Horses, Don't They ?, based on the 1935 book of the same name, written by Horace McCoy who was a bouncer at several such marathons, popularised the idea, and prompted students at Pennsylvania State University and Northwestern University to create charity dance marathons.

His 1965 exhibition of " Poem Posters " at Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York, triggered a color-poster fad, and a film made of the show was chosen for Fourth International Avant-Garde Film Festival in Belgium.

In 1990, 21 contemporary bands — including R. E. M., ZZ Top, Richard Lloyd, David Leonard, The Jesus and Mary Chain, and Primal Scream — recorded covers of Elevators songs on Where the Pyramid Meets the Eye: A Tribute to Roky Erickson, one of the first tribute albums, in what would become a fad.

Although many motion picture studios would not touch this new medium, thinking it's was just a fad and would fade away, MCA decided to embrace this new phenomenon.

This period would also create history as Dre and Yella would cross paths with a teenage performing group called CIA ( Cru ' In Action ) starring O ' Shea " Ice Cube " Jackson, Dre ’ s cousin Tony ‘ Sir Jinx ’ Wheatob and Darrell ‘ K-Dee ’ Johnson who caught the attention of regular patron, and local drug dealer Eric ‘ Eazy-E ’ Wright, who was looking to capitalize on this new fad and turn his business legal.

Harris compared the laid off hospital workers to the people who lost their jobs after the hula hoop fad died down in the early 1960s, commenting " Just as Hula-Hoops went out and those workers had to have a factory and a company that would manufacture something else that's in, it's the same in government, and you know, governments have put off these decisions for so many years that restructuring sometimes is painful " ( The Globe and Mail, 6 March 1997 ).

Unfortunately, the concept behind the arrangement was that rock and roll music was a passing fad, and that the pop music of the 1920s through the early 1950s would endure.

The song was greeted by raving fans on both sides of the Atlantic but was dismissed by some critics as nothing more than another fad song that would not hold up to the test of time.

In 1948, Hynek said that " the whole subject seems utterly ridiculous ," and described it as a fad that would soon pass.

In 1994, ABC and CBS Radio passed on the show, saying a national radio show on the subject would be unsuccessful, as computers and the Internet were a fad.

He was convinced that any changes from the Britain of his youth ( in the late 18th century ) were signs of degeneracy, that Britain was about to go bankrupt, and that the new railways were a passing fad which would soon give way to a return to stagecoaches.

In an attempt to cash in on the fad, at least 2 other companies produced tapes that would work with the Teddy Ruxpin toy.

Although the masks were widely believed to be only a fad that would presumably die down as the public attention on Watergate waned, the masked managed to outlive their presumed fad status by becoming popular during events such Halloween and adult masquerade parties.

But it was a fad, and only Los Pericos would sustain and grow their careers once the fancy faded ( Los Cafres would be mildly successful starting in 1994 ).

A band that was not a fad was Los Auténticos Decadentes, who would become a hugely popular ska-Latin pop and ballad group.

Even The New York Times predicted that crooning would be just a passing fad.

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Since the Doctor's last visit, a new fad of dreaming had arisen, with professional dreamers who would construct dream worlds in which groups of people could participate in a shared fantasy.

Gilbert admitted some doubts as to whether the æsthetic subject would still be appreciated, years after the fad had died out.

The brand was marketed despite internal concern it would be a fad and not last more than a year.

Tight rolled pants, or more commonly called pegged pants, was a fad of the late 1980s early 1990s in which girls and boys would tight-roll the bottoms of their jeans or any pants that they wore.