Word: buzzed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...conference podium in the Paris suburb of Marnes-la-Coquette, he faced an animated throng of 200 fellow scientists and a large contingent of reporters. But by the time the Lebanese- born biologist had finished flashing 20 graphs and charts on the screen beside him, a buzz of doubt had filled the room, and the long-standing rivalry between American and French AIDS researchers had once again surfaced...
...Temple Hills Drive, Lois Aldrin, wife of Gemini and Apollo astronaut Buzz Aldrin, is dressed in a smart lounge outfit and brown sandals. Their house in Emerald Bay was evacuated at 2 p.m. "Emerald Bay has its own fire department, and I thought surely they would stop it," she says. Aldrin has no way to know whether she was right. She had time to grab only one item other than a billfold. "See, this is what I took," she says, opening up a shirt box from Neiman Marcus. Inside there are miniature flags, first-day stamp covers, letters...
...anything else flammable to block the Rangers' retreat. Rescue helicopters could not land in the narrow streets; the only way out was by ground. From that point on, Ranger Major David Stockwell, the U.N. military spokesman, said, "it sounded like the air was filled with angry hornets. The buzz and crack of small-arms fire was all around" the pinned-down Rangers, as two rescue columns fought to reach them. One, a Quick Reaction Force riding unarmored trucks and humvees (modern versions of the jeep) could not get through. Pakistani, Malaysian and U.S. troops -- some, ironically, aboard Soviet-made armored...
Moore, Harvard's chief electrical inspector and elevator guru, is charged with running and maintaining the old and new elevators, the faster ones and the slower ones, the ones that groan going up and those that are programmed to buzz at every floor...
...movie nears its debut this weekend, the uproar has settled into a generally respectful buzz. Shilts' prodigiously researched 600-page book has been boiled down to a fact-filled, dramatically coherent, occasionally moving 2 hours and 20 minutes. At a time when most made-for-TV movies have gone tabloid crazy, here is a rare one that tackles a big subject, raises the right issues, fights the good fight. That is both its strength and its weakness...