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Word: biz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Musafar is scornful of such "show-biz" decoration. "These people have gone way overboard with hotel-room surgery," he says. Doctors warn of possible infection and other dangers of such procedures. "From a medical point of view, none of these things have a justification," says Glenn Kane, an emergency-medicine specialist at L.A.'s Century City Hospital, "though they may from a social point of view." Daren Gardner regards his brand--a large infinity symbol--as a sign of everlasting devotion to his wife Amanda. "What I'm looking for is an emotional experience that goes beyond where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Brand New Bodies | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...neither. He is a comedy writer. His name can't be found on film scripts or Broadway marquees or even as Executive Associate Creative Consultant on a UPN sitcom. Yet he is the unseen perp of some of the funniest, most famous or notorious moments in recent show-biz history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Roastmaster General | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...Rust Belt goods as steel, virtually every American industry is represented online by at least one entrepreneur who has set up shop to cement business-to-business commerce. Meanwhile, large corporations are using the Internet to build bridges between themselves and their strategic partners. Each member of the online biz-to-biz (B2B) brigade is hoping to use the Net's instantaneous global reach to build digital marketplaces where buyers and sellers who may never have met in the off-line world can gather daily to move huge and growing amounts of the nation's basic goods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The E-Trade Stampede | 9/6/1999 | See Source »

...movie satirizes everything from the cell-phone culture to celebrity fawning, but its director, Frank Oz, knows that satire--especially show-biz satire--is what closes on Saturday night. So his style is casually naturalistic. He makes you believe this goofiness might really be happening. You know what? Somewhere, not necessarily in the movies, not necessarily so merrily, it probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Dreamers and Schemers | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

...recurring roles as sidekick to mature macho men, she's easygoing enough to divulge her real birthday. Ask most actresses their age, and you'll get a how-dare-you stare or an outright lie. Russo, a devout Christian, once sought divine guidance about fudging her age for show biz's sake and ultimately decided to take the righteous path. She's 45. "What's sad is that actresses who are 40, 45, 50 and 60 aren't being considered for choice roles," she says. "And some of them have more to give today than ever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lady and the Champs | 8/9/1999 | See Source »

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