Word: hubbubing
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...situation is not particularly well developed. The question of who may be stalking the celebrity is not posed in a riveting fashion, and the two or three menacing sequences are isolated passages, not integrated into a steadily tightening web of suspense. Director Mick Jackson is good with show- biz hubbub, but the good idea of having the killer make his move at the Academy Awards ceremony is vitiated by the sequence's cramped, tacky design...
...hubbub about estrogen, its workings are still somewhat mysterious. "We attribute the rise in heart disease to menopause, in which the estrogen supply is diminished," says Columbia's Giardina. "Yet we really don't know how estrogen works." The hormone is known to promote higher levels of HDL, the "good cholesterol" that helps keep arteries clear. Yet estrogen increases HDL by only 10% or 15%, and Giardina suspects that is not enough to account for the dramatic difference in heart disease rates between men and premenopausal women...
What the current hubbub over political lying ignores or drowns out is the fact that there are disabling truths, messy realities that positively stymie adequate response unless their particulars are reduced to deceptive simplicities. Every sentient human being knows this from daily experience. What has shattered in the public sphere, as epitomized by the Bush-Clinton campaign, is the once agreed-upon etiquette of lying...
...with an Oscar and an Emmy). Zaks, who had seen Walton's gallery art, suggested that he "just paint." The result was a succession of highly stylized street scenes, ablaze in sunset colors and pulsating blue-purples, yet aggressively two-dimensional and unreal. They convey the aura of city hubbub but never evoke a real place...
...serve wine or beer, and operatives shut the gates tight by 9 on weekdays. In Seville the fair stays open until 4 a.m., night after bibulous night. Children may not have as much fun at Expo '92 as they will at Euro Disney, but in Seville the hubbub is heartening and authentic, full of life as well as production values...