Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...laying out the panoply of privilege: the sleek cars, the comfortable faces (Gene Hackman, Hal Holbrook). It's like going on a shopping spree at Neiman Marcus and then getting whacked with the bill: here is the middle class's Faustian bargain of big money and sapping compromise, of anxious wives and Stepford lives. How handsome the paneling on a lawyer's desk -- as handsome as the paneling on a lawyer's casket. At Bendini, Lambert & Locke, death is the penalty for abusing the rule of confidentiality. Harvard Law whiz Mitch McDeere (Tom Cruise) will break that rule and many...
Although Arnold Rampersad, biographer of Langston Hughes and a Princeton professor of literature, is listed as a co-author of the memoir, its style and organization show understandable signs of haste. Ashe was anxious to set the record straight. He does. What he says about his conservative upbringing in Virginia and his days as coach of the U.S. Davis Cup Team add to his luster. His views on social values and race relations are unexceptionable, his Polonius-like financial advice is firmly based on bad experiences, and all things considered, his pick of Jimmy Connors as the best...
Columbia Pictures, anxious about its huge investment, quickly sent in the spin doctors. The studio did get "slightly panicked" at the preview, says co-writer David Arnott. "Clearly the movie was too long, and the jokes needed timing tweaks. But a lot of people liked it." The new sequence was just "Arnold never giving up on anything," says director John McTiernan. "He guilted us all into shooting it." Now he has to hope that, oh, 40 million Americans will be guiled or guilted into seeing...
...wasn't a bad question. In an interview with TIME afterward, Gergen said he understood that there might be resentment. "If I had worked my tail off during the campaign and some guy who had worked for Republicans came into my chain of command, I would be anxious," he admits. "And it's as big a surprise for me as it is for them. Some of them think this is a liver transplant and I'm the liver...
...Anxious to "fit in," some immigrants are also unwilling to call attention to problems in their communities...