Word: buzzes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buzz has begun...
...sent them directly to reporters, a relatively new technique. Of course the Cabbage Patch Kids eventually sold well (more than $700 million) because kids liked them. But the adult hook--reporters thought the dolls looked "traditional," like the ones Granny might have made on the farm--started the buzz. And the buzz led to scarcity, which in turn created more buzz...
...transformed industry is flourishing in Buzz and Woody's wake. The recent success of Antz was only the first shot in a fusillade of diverse CGI (computer graphics imaging) epics designed to appeal to moviegoers whose tastes are informed more by Super Mario and Doom than by Snow White and Bambi...
Bryan Turner, head of Priority Records, got the buzz going on War by shipping copies of the song Ghetto Vet to hundreds of nightclub deejays. Says Turner: "Cube's got his own fan base. Alanis [Morrisette] and Garth have nothing to do with what we sell...
What follows would shame the gods, if any were paying attention. Here's the mother, back in the U.S., in old age: "Now that every turn in the weather whistles an ache through my bones, I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass." The memories, eloquently relived and regretted, are of grotesque cultural arrogance, unraveling in a very small place. Rumblings of the Congo's struggle for independence from Belgium--and U.S. plotting to assassinate Patrice Lumumba, the new nation's first Prime Minister--are distant thunder in Kingsolver...