Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the work is completed, the IAB will have a completely new look. The lobby has been restored to its original arrangement with two smaller booths replacing the central monitor's room. The lobby attendant will now have to buzz students into the main facility...
When the work is completed, the IAB will have a completely new look. The lobby has been restored to its original arrangement with two smaller booths replacing the central monitor's room. The lobby attendant will now have to buzz students into the main facility...
...disrupt school-board meetings in Hillsboro, Mo., as they demand to control curriculum; force doctors to stop performing abortions in Virginia Beach, Va.; march in San Antonio streets to protest sex channels on cable TV. The shelves of religious bookstores are filled with their social protests, in which the buzz words "secular humanism" are used to cover anything and everything the authors disapprove of. The Fundamentalists "have moved into the center of America's cultural stage," says Baptist Pastor William Hull of Shreveport, La., who is unsympathetic to them...
Calvin Coolidge notwithstanding, the business of America today is service. Since World War II, the U.S. has made the transition from smokestacks and assembly lines to copiers and computers. Today two-thirds of all people work in wholesale and retail trade, communications, government, health care and restaurants. The buzz word of the 1970s job market was high tech. In the next decade it will downshift to low tech. There will be tremendous expansion in such decidedly unglamorous occupations as cashier, registered nurse and office clerk...
...with Keyboard Player Jerry Harrison, they became the premier house band for New York City's young artistic community. Artist Robert Longo even inserted a life-size cutout of Byrne, the group's lead singer and driving force, into a construction called Heads Will Roll. "Neo-expressionism" was the buzz word for this kind of art, and, for a while, it might have been carpentered onto the Heads' music as well. African rhythm stacked up against Motown, and 42nd Street funk against the ozone background musings of Rock Minimalist Brian Eno, all set under lyric passages that seemed like exercises...