Word: anxious
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While Harvard officials celebrated yesterday’s release of reports outlining the University’s future campus across the river, Allston residents remained anxious about when construction would begin and how it would affect their community...
...Wife Swap," in which mothers from two different households change homes for a week to live with each others' families. Scenes from the pilot, in which a crunchy vegetarian from California swapped with a neat freak from New Jersey, got a lot of laughs. Still, you have to be anxious about a show that defines women entirely in terms of their homemaking. I mean, do we really want reality TV to drag women back to the 1950s? Oh, wait - "The Bachelor" already took care of that. Carry on, then! Meanwhile, on "The Benefactor," billionaire Mark Cuban is giving away...
...exception is "Joey," which NBC is so excited - and/or anxious - about that they screened the entire pilot, something NBC president Jeff Zucker said the network had only ever done for "The Cosby Show" and "The Golden Girls." (Both, I assume, were meant as flattering comparisons.) Why take such an extraordinary step? Because you want to create the impression that "Joey" - on which more paychecks than usual are riding - is itself extraordinary...
Serious student Jane (Ashley), with "a 4.2 GPA," wakes up anxious the day she is to deliver a speech that could win her a scholarship to Oxford. Her rebellious sib Roxy (Mary-Kate) is cutting school, again, to attend the making of a rock video. Their paths cross, and they spend a frantic five hours in Manhattan getting into cute scrapes, kooky car chases, a few changes of clothes and the city's sewers...
...time to complete their preparations. Above all, last week's test would conquer or confirm worldwide suspicions that Athens was blowing its deadline for the Games. The roof was already three months behind schedule, another dismal detail in a building program plagued by chronic delays and charges of incompetence. Anxious to avoid a p.r. fiasco, authorities limited coverage to Greek state TV. The Deputy Culture Minister nervously smashed a bottle of red wine on the base of the arch and looked skyward. The gods of Olympus answered her silent prayer. The 9,000-ton roof segment moved - just. The closing...