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From poodle skirts, hot pants, and Lava lamps to Pogs, Pokemon, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Bad Fads takes a fresh and funny look at the games, gags, dances, and styles of yesterday. This entertaining and nostalgic book unearths many short-lived popular trends from the past 100 years, covering fashion (go-go boots and Farrah Fawcett hairdos), collectibles (Rubik's Cube and pet rocks), activities (3D movies and drive-in theaters), and events (telephone booth stuffing and goldfish swallowing). No age group is spared these embarrassing reminders of the intriguing, bizarre, and just plain silly fads of past decades. ... Read more

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Bad Fads review
A great book!It covers generations of fads.Reading it reminded me of good times and bad clothing. I truly enjoyed the book and recommend it highly!

WE SHOULD KNOW!
I grew up with Mark Long, so I know this much first hand. He and I know a bad fad when we see one, or should I say, lived one. This book is a personal trip down memory lane, and memory lane has alot of potholes and speed bumps, in other words, it's a rough and painful ride. I found myself laughing out loud most of the time while reading through BAD FADS simply because of the images of myself and my friends living those fads, Mark included. I promise, reading this book can only make you smile. It's worth every penny. Thanks, Mark, for the memories.

A page-turner
Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. A real walk down memory lane and a must read for nostalgia lovers. Great illustrations accompany the fads of the past century. Interestingly enough, many of these long-forgotten "Bad Fads" have reared their ugly heads in recent years, making what's old seem new again. This is one "bad" book. ... Read more

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» A lively and entertaining look at that wild decade, the far-out 1960s
» Colorful anecdotes, quotations, fun facts, and stories that celebrate the music, personalities, and fads of the era
» Attractively illustrated with black-and-white and full-color photos, images, and signs of the times
» This trip into history will entertain, amuse, and amaze both those who fondly remember the decade and those experiencing it for the first time ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from American Decades: Primary Sources, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 464 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.American Decades Primary Sources provides fresh insight into the decade's most important events, people, and issues. Entries representing a diversity of views that provide insight into the seminal issues, themes, movements and events from the decade. Also included are concise contextual information, notes about the author and further resources. American Decades Primary Sources includes chapters on the arts, medicine and health, media, education, world events, religion, government and politics, lifestyles and social trends, law and justice, religion, business and the economy, and sports. Included to provide unique perspectives and a wealth of understanding are first hand accounts that include oral histories, songs, speeches, advertisements, TV, play and movie scripts, letters, laws, legal decisions, newspaper articles, cartoonsand recipes. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 173 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 365 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 267 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 272 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 340 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear through the Ages, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses.The length of the article is 506 words.The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase.You can view it with any web browser.Provides a broad overview of costume traditions of diverse cultures from prehistoric times to the present day. Examines more than 430 items of human decoration and adornment, ranging from togas to turbans, necklaces to tennis shoes. Explores how and why items were created, the people who made them, and their uses. This set shows how clothing, headwear, body decorations, and footwear reflect the different cultural, religious, and societal beliefs. ... Read more

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The roles of fashion and taste are central to our understanding of the social dynamics of modern consumer cultures. In this study on the aestheticization of social life, Jukka Gronow uses the insights of Veblen, Simmel and Huizinga among others to show how fashion operates as a form of play binding modern society together and allowing an equilibrium between the opposing forces of the individual and society. In the process, he draws on a rich range of examples and case studies ranging from the dominance of kitsch in late nineteenth century Europe to the shifting nature of luxury in the Soviet Union from the 1930s through to the growing influence of western ideas of the good life from the 1960s on to food scares and food fashion in the late twentieth century. ... Read more

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Kindle edition of Huxley's classic first novel with active table of contents.

Huxley satirises the fads and fashions of the time in the book. It is the witty story of a house party at "Crome." The history of the house is told by Henry Wimbush, its owner and self-appointed historian; apocalypse is prophesied, virginity is lost, and inspirational aphorisms are gained in a trance. The stories protagonist, Denis Stone, tries to capture it all in poetry and is disappointed in love.

Crome Yellow is in the tradition of the English country house novel, in which a diverse group of characters descend upon an estate to leech off the host. ... Read more

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"I had such genius then."
This is early Huxley at his funniest. The romp takes place at the Wimbush home, Crome Manor, where Ms. Wimbush drains the estate finances with horse betting by horoscope and mild Henry Wimbush records the long history of the manor, particularly its plumbing. Diverse with ideas, as well as varied psychological types, the novel is a predecessor of Point Counterpoint and the darker, more humanistic novels. This is light and comic. Denis Stone, the protagonist, is a Huxleyen self-portrait, bright, sensitive, literary, self-absorbed, preoccupied with his sense of genius, and somewhat ineffectual in practical matters and in love. Old Scogan is a portrait of the "saurian" Bertrand Russel, with dry, humorless observations, while other characters embody known literati and artists of the day. Whiling away their time in the remote estate, they sample dalliance, leisurely conversation, and a treatment of the history of eccentrics that have lived in the manor over the centuries, amidst a pleasantly lazy and refined atmosphere. This is a nice portrait of a world that hardly exists anymore--the somewhat idle wealthy post world war one set in England, savoring the new intellectual trends, and revolting against the Victorian past in their cultured, mannerly way. This is perhaps the most humorous and kindly of Huxley's self-portraits, of the serious but shyly ineffectual artiste Denis Stone. A nice portrait of the fatuousness of the twentysomeething artist, who remarks while idling time away of his work a year or two ago, "I had such genius then." And for those interested in psychology, a nice depiction of what RD Laing the antipsychiatrist called, a generation later, "implosion," "objectification" and ontological insecurity. Damon LaBarbera, PC, FL

Hilarious
This was probably one of the funniest books I've read in a while.Satires, if not done properly, can get dull very quickly.There's typically a point where you can actually feel the dead horse being whipped by the author as he panics for something else to say.Crome Yellow seems to stay fresh all the way through.If you're expecting Brave New World subject matter, totalitarian governments and that, then you will not find it.I'd say its worth it just for Harry Wimbush's family history.

Good Service
The book was in the condition that the seller stated it was in. The price was right and it arrived in a timely manor. This is all that mattered to me.

A slice of a forgotten way of life
This book transports you to 1920's English countryside estate life. Plenty of time for ennui, long sermons, elaborately constructed ideas (included several which later appear in Brave New World), coming-of-age angst, and a set of interesting characters.

I had much more fun reading this than I had expected. A verynice, light surprise.

Much better than I had expected.
Crome Yellow is actually the second novel by Huxley that I have attempted to read this year. The first one, Island, was one of those few books that I find so unreadable that I have to put it down without completion. I won't go into all the reasons that I hated Island-- suffice to say that it wasn't my cup of tea on any level. In any case, I approached Crome Yellow with some trepidation.

This wasn't helped, by the way, by the back cover of the book. It informed me gravely that this book was "blamed for...the downfall of post-Victorian standards of morality". It also describes the book as a "bold exploration into love and sex". I rather doubted the first statement and was rather put off by the second. All the same, I had carted the book to Singapore to read, so read it I was determined to do.

To my surprise, rather than a crude broadside on 1960s utopian ideals, I read a rather delicate satire of country manor novels. Granted, it was a satire with a sharp edge, which took the opportunity to take some nice little rabbit punches at society in general. But still-- not at all what I was expecting.

I was particularly impressed by Huxley's hand with character. After a generation of sighing sensitive young men who tremble with love for their older ice princesses, it was quite a relief to meet a sensitive young man main character who was just as gormless and ineffective as he appeared. Huxley uses a combination of smart word choice, good dialogue, and a cynical eye to make his point. There is some real stink dressed up as clever froth-- and that's a skill that I really admire.

I have the feeling that the book is so much of the time that I was missing part of the point. Sort of like a child listening to grown-ups talk scornfully about people that you only vaguely know.

Anyhow, glad that I read it since it washed the taste of Island out of my mouth. A curious little book, and worth reading, even if it didn't single-handedly cause the downfall of Victorian morality. ... Read more

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Includes 4 magazines with each covering ten years: 1920-1920/1930-1940/1940-1950/1950-1960.CONTENTS: BOOK ONE-1920-1930: 1) Flaming Youth 2) Flight 3) All That Jazz 4) Boom and Bust 5) The Sports Stars 6) Prohibition 7) A Lively Press 8) Notables 9) Fads and Ballyhoo 10) On The Road BOOK 2-1930-1940: 1) Radio 2) Hard Times 3) Dream Factory 4) Cops and Robbers 5) F.D.R. 6) Cafe Society 7) Labor 8) The Movies 9) Swing 10) The Big Fair BOOK THREE-1940-1950: 1) The War 2) Home Front 3) After the War 4) Sports 5) Teenagers 6) Fashion 7) Theater BOOK FOUR-1950-1960: 1) Personalities 2) Fads 3) Eyes of the Nation 4) Music 4) Suburbia 5) Culture 6) Rebels 7) Television ... Read more