Word: buzzings
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...your temples turn gray, or working as a garbageman, thinking of what might have been if wasn't for that heroin problem. After all, there are plenty of people willing to pay to see you go through the motions one last time, and all "creative differences" disappear when the buzz of stardom wears...
...Japanese have a new buzz word for this phenomenon: kokusai-ka (internationalization). Kokusai-ka refers to the host of efforts designed to deal with trade frictions, from opening the domestic market to foreigners to investing more heavily in public works, including bridges, highways and housing. The more philosophic interpret kokusai-ka as an end to Japan's historic attempt to remain separate from the world and the beginning of an opening of Japanese hearts and minds to the international community...
...BRING back the touchy-feelie days of elementary school, when education had smells, colors and texture. Elmer's glue. Candles and crayons. That heady Magic Marker buzz...
...Engineers came out like a buzz-saw: they scored the game's first four goals...
Reed wages constant war against what Northrop Frye calls "the lumber of stereotypes, fossilized beliefs, superstitious terrors, crank theories, pedantic dogmatisms, oppressive fashions and all other things that impede the free movement of society." He refuses to use buzz-words or catch-phrases with the easy eloquence of a critic. He refuses to label himself as part of any tradition, be it post-modernist, anti-feminist, even Afro-American. He refuses to talk in categories--when asked about Black writing, he talks about Native Americans, Italian-Americans...