Word: buzzed
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...patient in Room Four was a retired NFL lineman. None of the staff had ever heard of him, nor had I, but some of our patients had recognized him and were chatting him up - the buzz in the waiting room was palpable. In the glow of the football player's celebrity, our patients' usual cranky impatience - while waiting for X rays, cast changes, insurance calls, paperwork or simply their turn to be seen - had evaporated , eclipsed that afternoon by sheer delight...
...feeling the buzz. I'd never heard of Johnny, but my patients' had - and people think that sports stars automatically know who the best doctors are. (They are, of course, quite wrong.) It's a tremendous practice-builder to have a few celebs on your roster. It can also be, if you don't watch out, a tremendous ego-inflator. Not that a surgeon's legendary ego needs growth - it's usually huge enough already. Sometimes that's a good thing: Much as Johnny's star confidence elevated the mood of the office, the surgeon's big ego can often...
...missing now, when Johnny comes in, is the buzz. Everyone still likes him, but being a drug rep and having a couple of big knee operations somehow cost Johnny much of his celebrity status. He's still big and no longer sporting a limp, but not even his big, fat football ring elicits comments from the other patients anymore. Johnny's always still talking, joking and nodding, though - and the other patients still like him. There is a gift, some kind of divine favor that fills the air around him and it's not the football. Charisma, star quality...
...despite the intellectualism, the Rousseau references, and the mass-critical acclaim, Bartlett failed to “cash in” on the buzz (as if such things even hold monetary values). And though he did reach annual sales of $6 million—substantial for a relatively small and niche label—the revenues were hardly comparable to the one-man tour de force efforts Mr. Bartlett was routinely exhibiting...
...jackets get thicker, and schoolwork begins in earnest, we also observe two changes in color: the leaves, which turn from green to red and yellow, and the CVS candy aisle, which turns first to orange and then to green and red.If we’re to believe the recent buzz about eating locally and seasonally, the progression of seasons should be accompanied by more pronounced changes in our diet—perhaps more butternut squash. As it is, the only edible indication of our tilting away from the sun is the repackaging and reshaping of that most artificial of foods?...