Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Glenda Jackson is a buzz saw of an actress and Rose is a toothpick of a play. This sense of imbalance sets the tone of the evening. Jackson possesses a feral magnetism; the play is nerveless, somnolent, inert. She is direct; the play is diffuse. In vocal inflection and delivery, she is a wicked font of wit and irony; the play is parched for either...
Ordinarily, conversation stops when a curtain goes up. But there is nothing ordinary about the current revival of The Little Foxes, and when the lights dim, audiences begin to buzz, like crickets waiting for dusk. "Where is she? How does she look? Has she lost weight?" Only when she has been onstage for five or ten minutes, do the whispers stop and the answers become clear: in her first stage role, Elizabeth Taylor looks beautiful, gorgeous, radiant. In a word, sensational. "I'm on a high," she admits. "I have a sense of accomplishment, a feeling of doing something...
That photo finish was not the only dramatic moment in a competition of many twists and triumphs. Handicappers looking to the 1984 Olympic Games could find much to ponder in the World Championships. Elaine Zayak, the 15-year-old American buzz saw who hurtles into triple jumps with wild abandon, served notice that she will soon be a major force in figure skating (see box), finishing second in the women's competition. A stylish Swiss, Denise Biellmann, 18, showed a few complicated moves of her own and took the gold. And once more, the Soviets proved that at least...
...fuss is apparently going to last forever. Fortunately, it does sometimes fizzle down to a pleasantly inaudible buzz. In fact, the country has enjoyed just such a lull in the years since Southern politicians stopped exhuming John Calhoun's interposition doctrine to resist desegregation. But now the lull is over. The oldest free-floating political issue in U.S. history is flaring up again, fueled by accumulated resentment at that familiar, all-purpose ogre: the huge, cumbersome, inefficient, ever busy Federal Government...
...Other People's Worlds opens, Tyte's meandering trail of deceit has taken him to the Gloucestershire town of Stone St. Martin, where he is engaged to Julia Ferndale, 47, widow of an army officer. The japonica is blooming, the folk politely buzz about Julia's young semicelebrity, and her mother, Mrs. Anstey, reads Dickens and feels vaguely uneasy about her future...