Word: anxiously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where did all of this desperation come from? New York, you say? Good answer, but desperation goes too far back and strays too far afield from New York. For all its Newest Wave, mod feel, Susan traces its anxious female motif back to the gangster melodrama films of the 30's, with one twist. Like the vapid blonds in film noir, our housewife seeks her thrills in a more happening world, but there the comparison must end. Her idol is not a man, but Susan; her goal not to grab her idol's pants, but to wear them...
...carries the same 30's drama, with a different sex swap. Sure, Joel actually says, "Sometimes you just gotta say, 'What the fuck.'" But what he's really saying, desperately, is that "sometimes you just gotta fuck." What do we have for our lucky couple? Well, for the dumb, anxious, ersatz blonde, there's Tom Cruise, the dumb, protohulking, died-brunette--and vice versa (if you haven't lost...
...selected Jane Mynors' nursery school in west London, but still could not help asking Mynors, "You will look after him?" For his part, Prince William, 3, maintained his regal composure last week as he became the first heir to the British throne to attend kindergarten. Arriving with the obviously anxious Prince Charles and Princess Diana, William politely shook hands with his teacher and turned obediently to wave a hand at the horde of journalists. Then, without fuss or fidget, the royal pupil disappeared into the basement classroom, where he began an introductory curriculum of paper and clay modeling, painting...
Among other things, the foreigners echoed complaints by some Mexicans that almost 4,000 troops guarding the devastated areas did little or nothing to assist in the rescue effort. Moreover, Mexican officials were allegedly more anxious to bulldoze ruined buildings than to proceed with the painstaking / rescue work, apparently out of the mistaken fear that decomposing corpses in the ruins would cause epidemics. Carl Heinz Wolbert, a West German police detective and volunteer rescue expert, wept in frustration at the resulting delays. Said he: "We can touch the people who are trapped. In Mexico it is impossible to get them...
...serious blow to Cambridge's traditionally progressive spirit of voter participation. In a city usually characterized by grassroots activism the referendum process has long held a privileged position, and now is not the time to belittle it. Moreover, we suspect that the democratic voices the Council is most anxious to silence are those of feminists. It seems that, once again, the opinions and grievances of women as communicated by feminist activists will not be heard...