Word: buzzes
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Turn on the TV today, though, and you'll find videos for our music everywhere. We call them commercials. The Smiths' melancholy anthem How Soon Is Now? sells Nissan sedans; the Buzz-cocks' acid What Do I Get? shills Toyotas; Devo's arch Beautiful World pitches for Target. Mercedes even uses the Violent Femmes' ultra-obscure It's Gonna Rain in a spot for a convertible, though more people may have bought DeLoreans than listened to this song in its first life...
That's because the $52 million comedy has no buzz. Despite raucous reaction at previews, surveys show that the general public doesn't have much awareness of the movie. Jokes are too elaborate to capture in a 30-second TV spot, and there's no Julia Roberts above the title to grab our attention. But in a summer full of craven action flicks made with the marketing department rather than the audience in mind, Rat Race stands out as an unabashed, family-friendly crowd pleaser...
...molecules combine to form water, heat and electricity are produced. Tapping that energy, by binding individual cells into what is known as a "stack," could mean efficient, continuous and clean electricity for everything from long-lasting cell-phone batteries to industrial power generators. And although fuel cells have generated buzz at least since astronauts took a prototype into space on Gemini 5 in 1965, it is only in recent years that a technology suitable for commercially viable hydrogen power has emerged: proton-exchange membrane fuel cells...
...Consider: The 2000 election ends. Gore concedes with great grace (nothing became him like the leaving); vanishes abruptly. Buzz, buzz - where's Al??Gore's gone, Gore's finished!...buzz, buzzz, buzzzz..... zzzzzzzzzzzzzz...
...Source: Department of Defense Almanac. Japan figures: United States Forces Japan) Outside, the rejected former serviceman sees the woman and a tall, black man with a buzz cut hand-in-hand. They are heading into the parking lot. He calls to them: "She ain't drunk, she's acting." The girl glares at him and says, "F--- you." The pair walks off and slips into the back seat of a sedan...