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...yuppie backlash comes into sharpest focus in CBS's sitcom Lenny. The head of this TV family is a blue-collar worker (played by stand-up comic Lenny Clarke) who grumbles like a 1990-model Ralph Kramden about everything from money troubles to his wife's use of yuppie buzz words. "Quality time?" he snaps. "You been watching thirtysomething again...
...competition attracted impassioned complaints from animal-rights groups, but Nucla was not fazed by the protests. When Governor Roy Romer asked the town to cancel the festive slaughter, Mayor John Vanderpool replied, "Buzz off." And when 40 or so humane activists showed up in Nucla to yell at the gunslingers ("It takes a big man to kill a little prairie dog!"), townsfolk had a ready retort: "Eat some lettuce!" After Nucla counted the money visitors had pumped into the town ($75,000), it was decided to plan an even bigger shoot next year...
...result is a new buzz word for health clubs: wellness. Many are evolving into comprehensive health centers, as concerned with emotional and medical well-being as with thighs and love handles. Nowadays, says Craig Pepin-Donat of the New York Health and Racquet Club in Manhattan, people "want more than sweat, metal and mirrors. They want places that are concerned with the whole person...
That afternoon White and his class of 30 view a BBC interview with Genet. It's something the class has been looking forward to for weeks, and a strong buzz of intellectual fervor is in the air, academia at its best. But before running the video, White has an announcement. It seems that next week there will be someone in the class to evaluate...
...force and a pent-up market of nearly 140 million consumers in the heart of Europe. Companies from Turin to Tokyo are setting up joint ventures with local firms, and as eager executives flock to the region, such grand hotels as the Budapest Forum and the new Warsaw Marriott buzz with high-stakes deals. "Learning how to invest profitably in Eastern Europe is the hot new game of the 1990s," says Paul Horne, chief international economist for Smith Barney...