Word: buzzed
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Inevitably, another song must soon take over as the mantle of most equal of all songs. Given the amount of buzz they’ve been generating in the music press (the snob’s Bible), perhaps The Strokes are likely suspects. “12:51,” their new single, shares a lot of the same genetic material as “Hey Ya!”: Handclaps, catchy keyboard-sounding riffs and the backbeat that has been the granddaddy of every rock song since Elvis. Casablancas’ drawl is as bewitching as ever...
...first made this Halloween-buzz-killing revelation as I was standing idly by listening to a sharply dressed, future Goldman Sachs partner schmooze it up at a recruiting information session. I had watched him ask questions he already knew the answers to for 10 minutes when he finally moved in for the kill. He began to tell the recruiter how much fun he thinks investment banking is, how sitting in front of a spreadsheet at 3 a.m. on a Saturday sounds like a great way to spend an evening and how he really believes that it would be enormous...
...military threat to justify going to war. It's partly corporate--the BBC, through its commercial side, is turning into a powerful media conglomerate. Some critics say the BBC is dumbing down its entertainment shows to get ratings and sexing up some of its news broadcasts to get buzz. With new digital-TV and radio channels, a highly successful website, a major international expansion--to say nothing of the fight with the government that provides much of its money and is about to rework its charter--"the BBC is having to justify itself in too many directions at once," says...
...buzz network," says Lee, 42, a former BBC director and producer. "When we were in under 30 million homes, there weren't a lot of advertisers who noticed. But we're really getting noticed now." Lee says the BBC's prime-time ratings have grown 50% year over year since 2001. "When we launched, only 3 in 10 Americans heard of the BBC. That figure is now 6 in 10." He says BBCA is ahead of its target to turn a profit...
...Recent buzz band The Stills serve up a compelling but unremarkable slice of modern rock on their debut full-length, following recent albums from bands (Pretty Girls Make Graves, Interpol) paying obvious homage to the 80s post-punk...