The beheading of Daniel Pearl in Karachi began the trend of turning journalists into specific high-value targets.
Perhaps the trend of turning movies into Broadway musicals is a case of turnabout being fair play.
"This nation has a trend of turning away from good morals," said Patsy Scarborough, a retired secretary and a church pianist.
And in yoking the story of Charles Manson in "The Manson Family" (1990) to the characters of the television show "Hawaii Five-O," Mr. Moran was in sync, however idiosyncratically, with the then-nascent trend of turning news events into opera.
In selecting Mr. Urso for a deputy commissioner's job, Mrs. Rell, who pledged an open and ethical government during her July 1 inaugural speech, is continuing a trend of turning to federal law enforcement officials.
"Sleepless in Seattle," the 1993 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan film that set its climax on the top of the Empire State Building, may yet find its own path to New York as part of the trend of turning hit movies into Broadway musicals.
The recent trend of turning basketball courts into multihued artwork can trace its roots back about 15 years, when colleges seized the floor as a medium for promoting both themselves and their corporate sponsors.
The trend of turning historic buildings into heritage-steeped hotels goes into overdrive this season, led by the Café Royal, the 19th-century Regency building near London's Piccadilly Circus, where Edward VIII drank, Oscar Wilde hallucinated and all manner of rockers have cut loose.
Now that Manti Te'o has made his appearance as daytime television fodder — complete with studio audience, Katie Couric questioning him as if he were a wayward third grader and parents crying on cue — can we please squelch this little trend of turning sports controversies into television entertainment events?
Finally, African American feminists have expressed deep concern over the trend of turning to African American women's literature such as Toni Morrison's Beloved to uncover gender and racial formation in psychoanalytic terms.
But if they dilute that experience because they feel they need to follow the current trend of turning everything into a social network, I will be the first to bail on them.
