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...action centers, naturally enough, on the judge, who sits behind his desk in the front of the room. The assistant clerk, the probation officer, and the lawyers buzz about the judge like workers attending the queen bee. They all mumble, and it is difficult to her the proceedings when sitting in the benches behind the railing that divides the judicial arena from the waiting area...
...never understood why they came to us for their party. I also don't understand why the business board, with the president's approval, took their money. (They drank cocktails on the same furniture we sat on while writing the staff editorial which concluded, "Buzz off, you pathetic elitists...
...choice voters in both major parties. B is for the backlash against the all-white, all-male Senate Judiciary Committee, which rubbed women's emotions raw last October with its insensitive handling of Anita Hill's sexual- harassment charges against Clarence Thomas. C is for change, the latest political buzz word for voters and candidates alike. "Men are running around saying, 'I'll change things,' " says Harriett Woods, president of the National Women's Political Caucus. "When a woman merely stands up, people say, 'She'll change things...
...series of cups followed the eggs, through the 1960s and '70s. In a sense the cups were Price's bread-and-butter work -- they were popular, and no California collector's knickknack shelf was complete without one -- and yet they were consistently inventive and spry, displaying a constant buzz of fantasy and a growing mastery of color. Sometimes, as in Gaudi Cup, 1972, the intensity of the glazes seems to have literally broken down the form of the ceramic into tiny glowing shards. This sense of color as a veneer on a flat surface gets turned into a form...
...productions has shot up more than a third, from 28 to 38. Total attendance since Jan. 1 has been 13.4% higher than in the same period last year. The range of fare has been unusually broad, from tap dance to Ibsen, from sitcom to Shakespeare. But the biggest buzz is about the abundance of high-profile movie and TV stars who have returned to the risks and rigors of the live stage...