Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...event this summer that overshadowed the rest--the launch of Talk magazine. Now Talk has followed up the first effort with a second issue as it looks to secure a future on the racks at Barnes and Nobles around the country, not just in the fickle Beltway buzz...
...should come as no surprise when, in the next few weeks, there's a buzz in the air about the impending Y6B. (Note the catchy name, just short and cutesy enough to rank in pop-culture significance above the number of home runs that Sammy Sosa has to date but below that other infamous abbreviation, Y2K.) For the uninformed, Y6B is what interest groups have begun to call October 12, 1999, the date when the United Nations Population Fund estimates that the number of humans on this earth will rise above the six-billion mark...
...plot is familiar: two ambitious Internet geeks graduate Stanford business school, devise a lucrative idea for an e-business, get funded by a prestigious venture-capital firm, set up shop in dingy offices, hire a lot of people, generate buzz, go public. The 15-month-old Internet start-up Della & James hasn't had its IPO yet, but so far it has nailed down the idea (an online bridal registry), the VC (Kleiner Perkins), the hiring (15 to 70 employees in six months) and the buzz (everybody in the Valley has heard of Della & James). But there are some twists...
...seem like an upwardly mobile profession. It's surprising that a film like this would come out of the Hollywood system, which thrives on crafting screenplays in board rooms and ensuring that movies don't get made that haven't been made before. This film, as the not-insignificant buzz has touted, is a miraculously untouched one -- from the script's first charmed appearance on the Hollywood scene (it won over Steven Spielberg, for one) to its realization in film...
...missing from this equation is a component never to be recreated in any electronic form--the intellectual buzz of a lecture hall, the students' awe at their professor's provoking ideas and the furiously scribbled note that captures that exciting moment of comprehension. Never can or will an Internet site provide the visceral excitement of learning, and alone will this crucial factor keep students attending class at the 62 universities affiliated with Wolf's Web site...