Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high-wire act. Television ads featuring the current issue begin appearing Sunday morning, as the magazine goes to press. So they must be produced as editorial pages are being completed. The solution: a manic production schedule coupling satellite links, chartered trucks, postmidnight meetings -- in short, the general hubbub and commotion on which Lois thrives...
...permits characters to transcend type, offering a more surprising range of response to events. Martin, for example, gets to do distraction as well as obsession, and Robards is allowed sentiment as well as cynicism. Because Ron Howard, who was responsible for Cocoon, has a talent for ensemble hubbub, there may be more good, solid performances in this unlikely context than in any other movie this year...
...year, up from $106 million in 1985. Yet the U.S. is basing its current trade complaints at least partly on the problems Motorola has faced in getting frequency clearance in Tokyo for the cellular telephones it is selling in Japan; Tokyo considers the grievance too small to justify the hubbub surrounding it. Observes Peter Tasker, British author of The Japanese: "Japan is not alone in some of these disputes. Try selling telecommunications to the French...
...warrens of the Capitol, when the press conferences and the hubbub subside, he suddenly appears out of the shadows alone, moving off to some other meeting or distant rendezvous, silent, beset. The inner agony is no longer shielded from his circle of friends. "It's hell, it's just hell," he says...
...circle more charmed than vicious, that . its most characteristic derangement is a sort of addled innocence. In Lindsay, star of the London-Broadway hit Me and My Girl, Reiner has found a perfect, gently insinuating instrument. Together they have created a sweet anachronistic counterpoint to the depressing hubbub of today's celebrity world...