Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Qian Qichen summoned the U.S. Ambassador, J. Stapleton Roy, for a diplomatic dressing down. As Defense Minister Chi Haotian's scheduled visit this month to the U.S. was postponed, the People's Daily thundered, "We demand that the American government rescind this wrongful decision." Speculation about reprisals was the buzz of both capitals. Possible countermeasures discussed range from China's cancellation of Boeing jetliner purchases to the still unlikely option of closing the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, capital of the hinterland province Sichuan and a doorway to restless Tibet...
...daughter sweaters. She also whips up screenplays. So when the actress proposed a script about a girl who can't sing (like Leigh) and her sister, who has a fabulous voice (as both of Leigh's do), Turner happily complied. Leigh stars in the resulting Georgia, which generated a buzz at Cannes but lacks an American distributor. The constantly risk-taking actress says she liked her tortured character for her ability "to be very naked and very out there." And hey-one Seattle scene was shot in the former apartment of Kurt Cobain's ex-drug dealer...
KEVIN REYNOLDS Costner's Waterworld helmer abandons ship -- the buzz says just in time...
...date for the formal this Saturday. As I was smoking the Camel Unfiltered cigarette in the light of the moon, a Harvard police officer chanced by and noticed my unsteadiness, caused partly by the peach schnapps, which was more than I could handle, and partly by my crazy nicotine buzz. I was Ad-Boarded for under-age drinking, and the permanent blemish on my previously stainless record will prevent me from achieving my life-long dream of going to law school. But I digress. Upon going to bed that night I dreamt that the New Kids on the Block were...
Such a distinction seems obvious, so much so that it hardly bears mentioning. And yet, this simple logic is lost on a good deal of Americans, to say nothing of Americans, journalists. In movies, on television and in magazines, 'Arab' and `Muslim' are often buzz words for gun-wielding, grenade tossing, Qu'rantoting fanatics bent on destroying the imperialist, materialist Satan that is the United States. When was the last time you saw an Arab `good guy' on your television screen...