Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That evening she danced with John Travolta," says Brown. "And she danced with the President. At the stroke of midnight they all disappeared. That night, after she left the White House, she went to St. Alban's School and got in her laps at the swimming pool. The buzz was the development officer was going to bottle the water and sell it. I teased her the next day: 'What do you do to get the chlorine smell out of your hair?' She looked at me with wide, unbelieving eyes. 'Haven't you heard of shampoo...
Born in New Jersey in 1925, Salter grew up in Manhattan, graduated from West Point and chose to serve with the Army Air Corps, as it was then called. During the Korean War, he was an F-86 fighter pilot, along with pioneering astronauts Gus Grissom and Buzz Aldrin. After 15 years in uniform, he resigned his commission to write full time. Hollywood beckoned--he scripted one of Robert Redford's early hits, Downhill Racer--but Salter eventually retreated to Colorado and New York's Long Island to concentrate on his meticulously crafted novels and short fiction. (A collection, Dusk...
...wind down our awards presentation, we'd like to offer some advice for our hep-cat profs. Ditch buzz phrases such as "politics of identity" or "in postmodern thought." Don't use more than one set of quotation marks per blurb. Take a lesson in candor from Professor Willie...
...ongoing arms race between mosquitoes and humans, the weapons are well known. The insects attack with their maddening buzz and persistent bites. The humans hit back with sprays, screens and repellent creams. Last week the mosquitoes dipped into their arsenal for a worrisome old weapon: encephalitis...
...says, than it would be worth--to create a fully realized, ready-for-its-close-up human from digital scratch. But that day is surely coming. Computer graphics--CG, in industry shorthand--have already been used to create loosely rendered virtual stunt people suitable for brief action sequences. The buzz has it that James Cameron's forthcoming Titanic will represent a leap forward with its use of CG extras, detailed down to the misty breath they exhale in the cold night air, although one source who has seen completed footage from the film says the overall effect is less impressive...