Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this boardroom tell-all generating more buzz than a Yahoo IPO? Surely everybody already suspects that the Internet bull market is a shell game. But who would have guessed that one of the minor players, having failed to find money dumb enough to make him rich, would get his payback with so deft a pen? Nobody comes off clean in this vengeful little book, not the venomous heirs of Robert Maxwell nor the philistine publishers of Windows magazine nor the executives at Time Inc. (where the author worked briefly as a consultant). "I'm a writer," Wolff tells his business...
...that familiar scream you hear belongs to Jamie Lee Curtis, who returns to the series that made her big with "Halloween: H20". While the tag line ("Blood is thicker than water") is a little lame, the advance buzz is that this is almost as good as John Carpenter's great original...
...Louisville doctors, of course, knew they would probably run into a buzz saw. Not so much over the surgery. That will be tedious and exacting, requiring the joining of dozens of nerves, blood vessels, tendons, muscles and bones, but it's the sort of delicate operation that hand surgeons have been doing for years. The big question, when a borrowed hand is involved, is rejection. While new immunosuppressant drugs are improving the success rate of all kinds of organ transplants--from hearts and lungs to kidneys--a body part composed of as many different tissues as the hand poses special...
...that sound you hear is Oscar buzz for Steven Spielberg, whose 'Saving Private Ryan' opens nationwide...
Granted, she put it all together in the service of buzz, the all-important chatter of readers, especially the ones in the New York-West Coast-Washington circuit. Yet Brown preserved in every issue a large core of thoughtful material. She brought on some conspicuously gifted writers, including David Remnick, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Anthony Lane and Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin). And the photographs that caused so much uproar when she first dropped them in, those big gray boulders of portraiture, hit the pages like dark meteors. Attention must be paid...