Word: buzzed
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...initially drawing about 1,000 or so curious onlookers to the site and its inevitable Twitter feed, where followers speculated about whether Zack16 was a bizarre new Metamorphosis-meets-My So-Called Life scripted dramedy or an ad for something. After a few reporters picked up on it, the buzz grew, and it was revealed to be the latter. Specifically, it's an online campaign for Procter & Gamble's Tampax...
...number-one challenge: Agents ran around trying to find “mobile partners” that could transform their books into apps on your favorite brand of cell phone; BEA itself hosted presentations such as “Book Bloggers—Today’s Buzz Builders” and “Twitter for (Book-Industry) Dummies...
Easily the most exciting piece of hardware aboard the ship, however - for lay lunarphiles at least - will be the camera. Even the best reconnaissance photography before the Apollo visits missed things, which is why Apollo 11's landing almost came to grief when Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin found themselves piloting their lander over an unexpected boulder field just seconds before touchdown. That's less likely to happen this time, thanks to a camera that can visualize objects as small as a few feet across. What's more, since the LRO will be in a polar orbit instead...
...people saw the R-rated comedy on its opening weekend. They liked what they saw, spread the word, kept the momentum rolling: the picture made another $27 million in the Monday-to-Thursday period, as opposed to $19 million for Up. Success like this becomes its own news, the buzz phrase du jour. And that generates more business. We conclude with what WNYC host Brian Lehrer calls an Uncommon Economic Indicator, and to which film reviewers can testify: Instead of asking a critic the usual question - "What new movie is worth seeing?? - people just say, "So, should...
...more clout than the average elder boomer pushed out for a younger employee. Conan - simply by having wanted forever to host The Tonight Show - is something of a throwback. The very idea of caring about big-network late shows is retro, now that Comedy Central has so much buzz. Conan's comic style also owes heavily to his elder, and now competitor, the 62-year-old Letterman...