Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Just then, I got a buzz from my call waiting. It was Nancy Reagan...
...Washington, as elsewhere, downtown shopkeepers lock their doors and refuse to buzz them in, provoking an agonizing debate about whether such actions are justified. In New York City, conflicted emotions simmer to the surface when the subject turns to Bernhard Goetz and the shots he fired at four young blacks aboard a Manhattan subway train. A nation that would like to believe it can shun stereotypes, that cherishes the ideals of equality and brotherhood, continues to be haunted by the plight of a segment of its citizenry that remains mired in a seemingly intractable dilemma of race and poverty...
...perspectives of flowering plums and cherries is perhaps to sense a connection with Louis' late "Unfurleds" of 1960-61.) Yet despite his expertise, precision of feeling and taste, Morris Louis does not come out of this show looking like a great painter. What is left? A perfume; a visual buzz unlike any other -- and the persistent impression of small pictorial ideas writ large. But for what it is, the work can still offer intense pleasure to the eye while inadvertently reminding you that beauty, in art, is not enough...
...jewelry store in a downtown neighborhood. Because you worry about robberies, admission is by buzzer...Someone arrives at your door. He is young. He is male. He is black. Do you buzz him in? Are you a racist...
...Tisch empire was built by buying good businesses at even better prices. Many Wall Street investors call themselves "value-oriented" and "contrarian," but those buzz words often translate into an investment philosophy no more profound than "Buy low, sell high." Larry Tisch is the real thing, earning his stripes over and over again...