Word: buzzings
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...heading for another record year, with sales of $12 billion in the U.S., up 7% over 2003, including consoles and PC titles. And thanks to hot new games like Halo 2 for the Xbox, the industry is light-years ahead of the toy business when it comes to buzz. With distractions such as instant messaging, cell-phone games and iPods angling for kids' minds and allowances, the digital revolution is making life miserable for the $20 billion toy industry. "Kids are playing on computers at earlier ages; they're picking up Game Boys and PlayStations younger than they were five...
...Nations need reform? A blue-ribbon panel commissioned by Kofi Annan counted 101 ways in a much anticipated report released last week. Headed by former Thai Prime Minister Anand Panyarachun, the 16-member panel had something to say about everything from nuclear proliferation to looming pandemics. But the real buzz was caused by the panel's call to expand and revamp the U.N.'s most important decision-making body, the Security Council. If approved, the recommendations would produce the biggest shake-up at Turtle Bay in more than a generation. "The chances of thorough reform have never been as good...
...dragged me off to hear this band Franz Ferdinand at a full house at TT the Bear’s. That was the last time that band will be playing a venue so small for a long time, and though before this I had heard more of the formidable buzz than of the band itself, at the show the three Scots seemed nothing but incredulous at the audience’s thrilled reaction to their music. In months to come, their fame would explode, with appeal not only in the underground, but also as far-reaching as MTV, where their...
Levine’s tenure as music director was greeted this year with a large amount of buzz in classical music circles. A renowned conductor and pianist, Levine is credited with bringing the Metropolitan Opera (which he still conducts) to new heights. Critics worldwide predict that he will live up to his reputation and raise the caliber of the BSO as well...
...21/4-hour film is a willful distillation of some 500 hours of rushes shot over a period of four years in vineyards located everywhere from the Brazilian rainforest to Sardinia to deepest Burgundy. In France, where Mondovino opened Nov. 3, the film has received mostly positive reviews and lots of buzz among wine lovers. It comes out in the U.K. next week, and in the U.S., Italy and Germany next spring. Nossiter is working his material into a 10-hour television series on the same topic, to be released sometime next summer. Far from a tiresome screed about the perils...