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...buzz today about discontent, about social gloom and political drift, a crisis of faith in the future and a fading sense of national identity? An identity crisis -- in France? It sounds as unlikely as the notion of Cyrano de Bergerac fumbling his sword or groping for the mot juste. In his 1983 book The Europeans, the Italian journalist Luigi Barzini, a seasoned and mordant observer of the Continental scene, cites Edmond Rostand's fictional Cyrano as the quintessence of French character, at least as outsiders exaggerate it: the boastful, cocksure Gascon whose fellow provincials are defined in Rostand's play...
This kind of thinking has created a jarring change in the buzz words of a town devoted to the glorification of the earthly body and the display of riches. Producers are suddenly locked in meetings pondering the intangibles: death, resurrection, salvation, reincarnation, atonement, even saintly behavior. Spellbound by the blockbuster success of last summer's Ghost, a sweet, metaphysical love story that reaped $218 million in the U.S. and $500 million globally, these obsessed producers have loaded the pipeline full of movies about robust spirits. No fewer than a dozen afterlife films will be released this year, ranging from...
GROW IT, SHOW IT. Once it was pure street fashion, but the Two-Deck Buzz Cut is walking into corporate boardrooms now. So are the Guido, the Tossed Salad, the James Dean, the Mushroom...
...impulse to premiere the show directly on Broadway, something he had never done, Mackintosh tried Miss Saigon in the West End, where theatergoing is a steadier habit and Vietnam guilt is not a local concern. He then relied on word of mouth among U.S. tourists to build up a buzz. By now it is a crescendo, enough to let him catapult Broadway's top single-show price to $100, a level previously limited to scalpers, for each of 250 front mezzanine seats, and to $60 for nearly all the rest...
...takeoff year. It started as a political buzz word to describe the followers of Gary Hart and ended up as a catchall label for the Doonesbury generation...