Word: buzzings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kids and parents alike marveled at the computer-generated antics of Buzz Lightyear and his floppy rival Woody. But that was child's play compared with the technological high jinks Pixar is cooking up for its upcoming Disney movies, A Bug's Life (due this fall) and a sequel to Toy Story (1999). Next on the 3-D animation studio's plate are convincingly rendered humans, the first of which appears in an imaginative short called Geri's Game. Director Jan Pinkava used powerful new software tools to create the skin and facial expressions of an old codger battling...
...YADA YADA Aired 4/24/97. A hallmark of a great show is its ability to penetrate the culture. This episode created a lot of buzz, but Yada Yada is rather dumber than Master of My Domain. Besides, the real killer moment comes when Jerry goes to confession...
...California, Berkeley. Again he was a star. When he graduated, he had the pick of American research corporations. Grove narrowed his choices: prestigious Bell Laboratories or Fairchild Semiconductor, a start-up staffed by a handful of brilliant engineers. Grove, who says he has "excellent antennae," listened to the Berkeley buzz and came back with a sense of the future: Fairchild...
What is often left out in the buzz is that fuel cells are hardly a new technology--though the techniques that are making them accessible to the masses...
Nicole's story: 250 wedding guests assemble at the church. The bride arrives in her bridal radiance. The appointed hour. No groom. Hmmm. Buzz, buzz. Time passes. Still no groom. Fidget and buzz. Guests swivel in their pews to scan the back of the church, in mounting alarm. At last, the best man--looking grim, dressed in street clothes, not formal wedding regalia--appears and reports that, Sorry, the groom has decided he cannot go through with it. Shock, tears, consternation--The Philadelphia Story upside down, or turned sideways, anyhow...