AB Roman Polanski's first Hollywood feature was an adaptation of Ira Levin's bestseller, and its success launched a trend for devil-baby, evil-kiddie and satanic pregnancy movies that extended well into the 70s.
Democrats learned from mistakes by the Republicans and shortened their proceedings for viewers, launching a trend culminating in both parties tailoring their entire conventions for an audience that still may reach 100 million this year.
Roman Polanski's first Hollywood feature was an adaptation of Ira Levin's bestseller, and its success launched a trend for devil-baby, evil-kiddy and satanic pregnancy movies that extended well into the 70s.
But when he set up the project in 1996, after quitting his government forestry job, he unwittingly launched a trend that would earn Vang Vieng – a higgledy-piggledy town on the pea-green river with a backdrop of soaring limestone mountains – a reputation as one of the world's most unlikely, and dangerous, party towns.
Then a handful of pioneering winemakers began converting the land to vineyards, and their initial success launched a trend that continues today.
"We were just hoping to produce something that was drinkable". But the Syrah they produced was a hit with their friends and families, and that wine — called Mantis after a praying mantis that flew into the garage where the barrel was stored — launched a trend that is turning this suburban outpost into wine country.
Snapstream, a startup that makes a device that lets enterprises record thousands of hours of TV (from both satellite and digital cable sources) and search inside the recordings for keywords, recently launched a trending topics site for TV.
The cops launched a trending topic about how awful they are.
Subsequently, a number of LGBT rights advocates began petitioning the company to make the character a lesbian in a "Frozen" sequel, going as far as launching a trending hashtag, #GiveElsaAGirlfriend, on Twitter in May.
