Word: buzzed
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...also a selling point. Last year Kennedy and partner Michael J. Berman, both editorial novices, brought their "postpartisan" concept to Hachette Filipacchi, a publishing company whose executives were impressed enough to sink $20 million into the enterprise. Since then, George has been stirring the same sort of buzz among journalists that Waterworld generated in Hollywood: a golden boy--maybe not the brightest fellow in town--seemed to be in way over his head on a slightly nutty project, and a delicious disaster was probably in the offing...
...history of the American art world be tween the wars that now, at the sour close of the 20th century, seems remote and glittering, like something enclosed in a bell jar. This was the moment when New York, pupating into a modernist capital, contained all the other buzz-word News-new woman, new paganism, new verse, the New Negro and the New Republic...
Although legendary Carm Cozza is back for his 31st year, don't be surprised if the buzz at The Game is that the coach Cozza's head may be on the chopping block; some of the Eli faithful feel he's out of touch.Crimson File PhotoHarvard's defensive line will have its hands full with Penn, Brown and Columbia this year...
Despite the problems, the pressure and the pre-emptive bad buzz, Michaels remains unflappable. "I wish I could say with certainty that this show will be a smash," he says, "but I know it will be a lot of people trying very hard." One big improvement, he contends, is the reduced size of the cast--from 13 to nine. Last year's numbers were "a huge problem from a writing perspective," says David Mandel, who left SNL to write for Seinfeld, "because you were juggling so many people, you could never hook into any one performer." Hiring unknowns, Michaels says...
...Lisa and Grant Wood's American Gothic. The picture that made his reputation was earlier, and better. Painted in 1862, it is a portrait of his Irish lover, Jo Hiffernan, Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl. Shown in London first and then in Paris, it provoked a buzz of irrelevant interpretation. The expressionless young woman in virginal white, standing on a wolfskin with a lily in her hand (that floral emblem of the Aesthetic Movement), was declared to be a bride the night after; or a fallen ex-maiden; or a victim of mesmerism--anything, except what...