Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America himself, Bert Parks? Scrubbed out of the 1973 Celebrity Register, for one thing. Instead, publiciety's decennial Almanach de Gotha includes for the first time Rapist Eldridge Cleaver, Lesbian Jill Johnston, Red Black Angela Davis, Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre, and Senator Thomas Eagleton. For readers anxious to achieve such status, Microsociologist Cleveland Amory, in a foreword to the new edition, passes on some advice. The way to become a celebrity, said Aristotle Onassis, who ought to know, "is to get to control the people's playthings. The moment I bought Monte Carlo and controlled the most famous...
Shockley said he is still anxious to come to Harvard, and that he would welcome any invitation, "especially if expenses are included...
...refrained from using the hot line in order to avoid the appearance of crisis. Later, Washington noted with satisfaction that Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko waited three days before granting a meeting requested by five Arab ambassadors in Moscow-a clear indication to Washington that the Soviets were not overly anxious to abandon détente in favor of the Arab cause...
...present are the director's dedicated, sensible assistant (Nathalie Baye), who muses: "I would give up a guy for a film-but I would never give up a film for a guy"; a zany special effects man (Bernard Menez); a forever wide-eyed makeup girl (Nike Arrighi); an anxious producer (Jean Champion); and a production manager (Gaston Joly) with a suspicious wife (Zénaide Rossi). Under normal circumstances, such a group could be counted on to cordially despise one another. But on location they create the kind of exuberant turmoil from which movies-just barely-get made...
...this pre-Labor Day season, however, the local cars and pick-up trucks which drive by are frequently interspersed with sedans and stationwagons bearing out-of-state license plates and anxious tourists heading north to escape the heat wave and smog alert descending upon the East Coast metropolises...