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Students in the same proctor group as the room's residents said that Thayer is abuzz with rumors about the incident...
...bands, all released new albums with comparatively little fanfare--and all three albums sold poorly, relative to the huge hits these groups have scored in the past. The chart slippage of these and other megagroups, coupled with the sad state of the industry in general, has set music executives abuzz--about the declining aesthetics of alternative rock, about what the next Next Big Thing will be, and especially about the tenuous status of their jobs (several labels, including Atlantic, have had staff cutbacks recently; and three music chains, Wherehouse Entertainment, Camelot Music and Peaches Entertainment, have filed for bankruptcy protection...
Bloom's descriptions of her now ex-husband's bizarre behavior--which included sending her bills for $150 an hour for the hundreds of hours he spent going over scripts with her and for $62 billion for contesting their prenuptial agreement--have been setting New York City literary circles abuzz, but Bloom waits until she is more than halfway through this memoir to begin dishing the dirt. For, Roth aside, Bloom, 65, has her own moderately interesting story to tell. She starred in Charlie Chaplin's Limelight, played virtually every major classical role on the stage and has acted opposite...
...sandwich and a drink, and then sat down in one of the polished wood coves with her friends. Probably not wanting to cramp her daughter's style, the First Lady and another woman sat at a neighboring cove. It only took a few moments before the Commons was abuzz with speculation, and only a few moments before the group I was eating with--some 'representative' students lunching with a candidate for an administrative position--decided to act as ambassadors. The Undergraduate Council member, naturally, led the charge...
...point--he tells his daughter he knows someone who "was involved in Dallas"--and who now, at 74, is on the verge of big payday, delivering and selling a planeload of unspecified merchandise somewhere in the Caribbean. It is 1984, after all, and the region is abuzz with preparations for what would later be described as the Iran-contra affair. Unfortunately, her father falls ill, and Elena agrees to accompany the plane on its mission and pick up the million dollars he expects to receive...