Word: showbiz
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...popular imagination, Hawaii has no more potent a symbol than the hula dancer, usually a youthful beauty with a dreamy smile undulating to the rhythmic strums of a ukulele. Far different from the showbiz representations however, is the hula in Hawaii. In all of its sacred and ceremonial forms, the hula is an integrated system of poetry, movement and rhythm. The MIT performances displaced any Hollywoodish notions that the audience might have had, impressing upon them the beauty, power, and aloha imbued in the hula. When asked about his impressions after his first encounter with Hawaiian culture, MIT sophomore Mike...
...want to be in showbiz...
...seeing a motorcycle zigzagging in front of the Mercedes in an apparent bid to try to slow it down, just before the crash. One of the attorneys representing paparazzi under investigation for manslaughter counters that the photographers are being targeted as "sacrificial lambs" in a prime-time case of "showbiz justice" aimed at pleasing the French Foreign Ministry...
...people have liked it, so you know just say the lines...this is where most of the work is going to be. As far as the timing goes, it's not a joke-heavy play. There's not a lot of one-liners, or zingers (that's a showbiz word for jokes). So it all sort of comes out of the conversation, the reparte, the bonhomie if you will, of the situation. So basically what it involves is just letting an audience know from the beginning that it's okay for them to laugh. After the first night...
...survive is thousands of people a day, each paying 5 cents an article--a scenario that is hampered right now by the fact that collecting a nickel over the Internet costs more than 5 cents. Until that changes, webzines are more likely to follow in the footsteps of Mr. Showbiz, which is planning to register readers in so-called premium areas and start billing them for access to the juicy bits. After all, says editor Mulcahy, "this is not a charitable venture...