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Every credible contender is doing his best to manage expectations, because beating them in Iowa is almost as important as beating the other candidates. Kerry, for instance, likes the buzz his reinvigorated campaign has been getting, but aides are trying to tamp down speculation that it might vault him past Gephardt and into second place. "A strong third here is the ticket out of Iowa," says Kerry's state director, John Norris. And when Jim Bernau, the host of a Dean house party in Altoona, predicted Dean would beat Gephardt by 12 points, Dean quickly put a stop to that...
...Cunard officials, 70% of the QM2's berths have been booked through the end of 2004, and 60% of the passengers have never traveled on a Cunard ship before. The trick will be to keep up this momentum. Last week the company tried to extract every ounce of buzz it could from the naming ceremony, drawing thousands of veteran cruisers, journalists and European travel agents to tour the ship. The general verdict was highly positive, even if the ship's decor and amenities seemed to be straining to appeal to customers in different age and income groups. After his tour...
...this delicately?--execution sometimes falters. There's plenty of evidence--scientific and otherwise--that healthy seniors, even residents of nursing homes, continue to have active sex lives. Consider the decision of a Riverdale, N.Y., senior home to permit trysts among clients as long as they are consensual. Or the buzz about the film Something's Gotta Give, in which Jack Nicholson plays a 62-year-old roue who boasts of never having had sex with a woman over 30, only to free-fall for Diane Keaton, his latest girlfriend's mom, still steamy...
This dichotomy--between the buzz culture and the culture we actually consume--also created two kinds of celebrities: those we wanted to see on the screen or hear on the radio and those we just wanted to read about in Us or PEOPLE. Occasionally, the categories overlapped, as with Beyonce, who conquered the news racks and the CD racks. But in other cases--notably Ben and Jen and Gigli--fame and commercial fortune were, if anything, inversely proportional. And whereas 2002 gave us famous has-beens, like Ozzy Osbourne and Anna Nicole, 2003 was the year of famous never-weres...
...suspect was described as a six-foot two-inch tall white male with a heavy build and buzz-cut brown hair...