Even if the internet has robbed Maupin of his ability to scandalise, he has lost none of his ability to skewer contemporary fads while politely imparting morsels of arcane sexual knowhow.
While the band recently moved out of their warehouse music studio, it is still where they record and rehearse, still living in their own world without any care for contemporary production fads.
Produced by industry veteran Quincy Jones, Off the Wall yielded the massive international hit singles "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough" and "Rock with You," both of which showcased Michael's energetic style and capitalized on the contemporary disco dance fad.
In contrast to the historically minded committee's desire for a more "American" White House, for the first 150 years the 132-room mansion was decorated in the style of the times -- that is, it was modern, and reflective of contemporary trends and fads, many of them foreign.
When Rudgers moved into Celebration he became the flip side of the reality TV fad in contemporary broadcasting.
The -isms and fads of contemporary life constitute their argot, the conduit of their frenetic discourse.
Twitter may seem to be the hybrid offspring of flash mobs and SMS, an utterly contemporary product of two recent fads, but Lee Humphreys, an assistant professor at Cornell, wants to pull an Ecclesiastes and convince you that that which is done is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.
There are other similarities: both shows seek a bold, contemporary tone by breaking with current fads and borrowing from series past.
In order to learn more about the sports fad with the most ups, we talked to four established contemporary artists who each reference the game in their own works.
Indeed, the weight-loss fads of past centuries include precedents for all the main contemporary diets, from low-fat, low-calorie ones to high-fat, low-carbohydrate ones, like the Atkins diet.
