Quotes from Connie Willis, Bellwether

Why do only the awful things become fads? I thought. Eye-rolling and Barbie and bread pudding. Why never chocolate cheesecake or thinking for yourself?

What's Management up to?" I whispered to Bennett."My guess is a new acronym, " he whispered. "Departmental Unification Management Business." He wrote down the ltters on his legal pad. "D.U.M.B.