Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whom, though? In the shops on Le Mars' main street, the buzz five weeks away from the caucuses is all about Steve Forbes, the multimillionaire whose TV and radio ads are everywhere. "They've got people talking about Dole being for tax increases and wasteful spending," says Ron Geiger, who runs a local food-distribution company. That and the idea that Dole can't beat Clinton "is a major problem," says Reynolds. "Of the others, Pat Buchanan has the true believers in tow, the types who'll vote even in a blizzard." Gramm too has significant local support...
There was little sympathy for Schulhof in Hollywood, where fellow moguls delighted in the downfall of a rival who was widely regarded as an interloper. Schulhof, the buzz said, may have been in Hollywood, but he was never really of it. Schulhof added to Sony's Hollywood expenses with the corps of studio chieftains who came and went at TriStar and Columbia, often departing with golden handshakes. Guber reportedly left with $40 million and a $200 million agreement from Sony to back him in a new company, an arrangement that was said to have infuriated Idei. A Hollywood executive summed...
...they're finicky adults. Rex (Wallace Shawn), a sexually insecure dinosaur, dreams of being "the dominant predator." Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles) grumbles about planned obsolescence while praying that Andy's new prized toy will be Mrs. Potato Head. It's not, though. It's an action figure called Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen). Buzz's power is that--to Woody's chagrin--he seduces the old toys with his space-age gadgetry. His problem is that he thinks he's human...
...good grace, and a hero who is deeply delusional. Woody turns weak and spiteful; he contemplates criminal mischief to discredit his rival. ("I had power,/ I was respected,/ But not anymore," spits out Randy Newman in one of the film's three very grownup sing-along tunes.) And Buzz is, in the blithest, most genial way, nuts. If you've never in your life seen a toy have a nervous breakdown, Buzz's will make it worth the wait...
Woody and Buzz become uneasy partners, Defiant Ones-style, when they are captured by Sid, the toy torturer next door. Sid must have spoken to a deep, dark streak in the animators, so lovingly do they detail the boy's atrocities. His bedroom, a playpen for Krafft-Ebing, is a place of ominous eccentric angles (his parents stuck him in the attic) and walls papered with posters for bands like Megadork. "The patient is prepped," he declares, revealing a doll with its head in a vise. This Sid is vicious...