Word: buzzes
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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From highbrow art to mass-market gewgaws, transparency--a visual trend popularized earlier by Apple's coveted iMacs--was the year's clear (ahem) buzz word. Some of the year's top buildings played with teasing, gauzy see-through effects, and you could scarcely buy consumer goods not skinned in Technicolor plastic: the Handspring Visor personal digital assistant, the Power Mac G4 Cube, translucent trash cans and toilet-brush holders from the likes of Ikea and Target. And magazines and books were rife with die-cut covers. The luminous transparent things of 2000 thrummed with Jell-O-colored energy...
...written his first novel, Boy Still Missing (Morrow), due in bookstores in February, and it's getting the kind of buzz a former factory worker can only dream of. The story of a teenage boy who gets into a sexually charged relationship with his father's mistress, leading to an accidental death, it has been championed by such big-name writers as Wally Lamb and Frank McCourt. The birth of a new literary star? "I'm so busy writing my next book," says Searles, "I haven't had a chance to process any of this...
...when Brooke Lampley would be single again. Drop-dead beautiful, talented, intelligent, funny and stylish, she cuts her own path wherever she goes. The problem, of course, was that she was attached-and that, as we all know, makes your stock plummet. Well, now she's not. And thus buzz is spreading. Let the wooing begin...
...define an invention as something new, created by human ingenuity. It is not a discovery of a natural phenomenon that already exists. It is not merely a product of convergence, technology's latest buzz word used to describe the combining of existing technologies. Yet as our first two choices illustrate, the art of making two or more technologies work together often requires a new invention--even if it is just a complex line of computer code...
...places, as close to the presidency as any of the two pretenders could hope to be last week, and between the two men who propelled them into the race. The former Presidents and First Ladies gathered at the White House to celebrate its 200th anniversary, and the buzz in the room was all about the history that was being made that week. Bush smiled his way through, gracious to everyone, but now and then he would mutter out of the side of his mouth to friends, "I've never been through anything like this." Barbara Bush confided to a friend...