In 2006 the company changed the industry again with the Nintendo Wii, creating a mania of Marios swinging controllers in the air.
"Jenny Lind's story is perhaps Barnum's single most extraordinary accomplishment," Ms. Maher said, "because he took something that was absolutely nothing in American society and created a frenzy, a mania, very much equivalent to today's rock stars".
The academics' defenders called the charges fraudulent, saying that the F.S.B., the main successor to the K.G.B., was trying to reassert itself under Mr. Putin by creating a spy mania.
The construction mania has created a spidery network of smooth lanes throughout the countryside.
Pinch Point, a gaming company, has just created a video game called Sperm Mania.
Enter a collaborator, Garlin Davis Halll); they conspire to create an artistic mania, with the magic hands producing new pieces.
That's right — in its zeal to cash in on some of that iPhone touch-screen mania, R.I.M. has created a BlackBerry without a physical keyboard.
Coincidentally in sync with "Survivor" and the current mania for voyeuristic programming, Mr. David has created a hybrid of extreme reality and extreme comedy.
It's a confusing story and one at odds with the all but official Polish mania for startups that culminated in the official announcement that the conservative Polish government created a 630 million euro fund to support the local ecosystem.
It has also created a strand called Opera Shots in which mini-productions will be developed, including Jocelyn Pook's opera Ingerland, about football mania, and Nitin Sawhney's Entanglement, which focuses on a woman taking a pregnancy test.
