The high-priced hand-rolled imports have been a fad among a young, professional urban set, fostered in part by Mr. Shanken's magazine and its covers of Demi Moore, Claudia Schiffer and other celebrities and by his "Big Smoke" parties that draw thousands who pay $150 to sample premium cigars.
Container homes have been a fad for years now, and not just for eccentric hipsters.
Since the mid-1990s the strategic roll-up has been a corporate fad: Large acquirers buy smaller players in fragmented industries, reaching for critical mass, McDonald's-like uniformity and that beloved state of bliss called synergy.
Since the mid-1990s the strategic rollup has been a corporate fad: Large acquirers buy smaller players in fragmented industries, reaching for critical mass, McDonald 's-like 's-likety and that beloved state of bliss called synergy.
"I sometimes think my life has been a series of fads or crazes," he once wrote.
"This has been an industry that has been based on me-tooism and fads," he said.
He was not shy about giving traditional Spanish styles a show-business sheen aimed at American audiences, a tendency that some critics decried but that others found essential to maintaining interest in what could have been a fading fad.
Conservatism is not defined by a tendency to stand by while people's aspirations for more democratic societies are crushed: that is isolationism, a doctrine with an even more accident-prone history".Democracy seems to have been a fleeting fad in the America-influenced parts of the Middle East," Mr O'Hara concludes.
According to McLaughlin, "Millions of acres of land have either been polluted or destroyed and this phasing out of synthetic chemicals and return to natural methods is proving that synthetic chemicals have been a brief but damaging fad that hopefully will never return". Trying to get DuPont, Dow and others onboard will be difficult, to say the least.
Steady diets of soft drinks and fast food might have been a fad one that doesn't compliment sake and sashimi all that well.
