These qualities comprise a handy group of assets for any party's battle cry & certainly to bemuse voters, gazing skyward, would stop to think that the words are aonly a fair-weather phenomenon, that their clean, white lines soon grow fuzzy along the edges & that eventuall the whole message, trails away with any wind that blows.
"The fashion fair is a phenomenon because it's one of the few remaining, fairly profitable institutions left over from segregation," said Nelson George, the author of "Hip Hop America" and other books on black culture.
Plus, as a target for an internet prank, the 'Belieber phenomenon' seems fair game, striking as it does a high point in the commercialisation of teenage desire.
The boys' project for the science fair — on the natural phenomenon called lake overturn, in which gases collect below the surface of a lake only to erupt with deadly results — gives the book its title.
The modern-day Frankfurt Book Fair was a postwar phenomenon, a vehicle for easing the readmission of Germany into the company of civilized Western societies.
"I saw it come back in fair, which is a strange phenomenon when you pull one in that direction".
In this month's Vanity Fair AA Gill examines the phenomenon of "perfection anxiety", a condition whereby the super rich enter a state of "panicked ennui" because, essentially, they have run out of things to spend their money on.
To be fair, it's a real phenomenon and will continue to grow — I frequently watch baseball with Twitter open on my iPad — but I'm not sure it's as big (right now) as the media would have us think.
As stories of violence and sexual harassment against women continue to become more public, it's fair to say that this phenomenon isn't exclusive to hip-hop.
