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Apr. 02, 1990: Business Notes:Marketing
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Apr. 02, 1990 Nixon Memoirs
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 53
Business Notes
MARKETING
Hurricane Of Hype
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<p> America has perpetrated countless pop fads on Europe, so now
the Continent is getting its revenge. They call it lambada, the
trendiest dance since the hustle. A torrid thigh-to-thigh
two-step that swept across Europe last year after being
imported from Brazil by French music promoter Jean Karakos,
lambada and its Afro-Latin sound have hit America in a
hurricane of hype. World Beat, an album by the lambada band
Kaoma, has sold 600,000 copies. Two hurriedly produced lambada
movies opened this month; five more such flicks are on the
way. The commercialization has just begun. Retailers, including
Bullock's in Los Angeles and Macy's in New York City, are
peddling skimpy lambada skirts and tops. Still to come: videos,
books, towels, bandannas and T-shirts--not to mention lambada
cocktails. Dance aficionados question lambada's staying power,
but promoters are dancing all the way to the bank.
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