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Hepburn is no more introspective in person than she was in her off-the-top- of-her-head, sentence-fragment memoir. Hepburn does not like people who "make a fuss." When she found her 16-year-old brother dead, hanging from the rafters by bed sheets, she cried later because it was expected of her. The apparent suicide was never discussed. She waits until the last chapter to talk about Tracy, who she says initially believed the rumor that she was a lesbian. She says she never knew how he really felt about her and wonders now if she "should...
...fuss is remarkable for a product that wasn't even available seven months ago. Nicoderm, the first patch to be approved by the FDA, arrived on the market just in time to cash in on several million New Year's resolutions. Backed by a massive ad campaign, marketer Marion Merrell Dow Inc. quickly created a huge demand, which soon outstripped supply. That was good news for rival Ciba-Geigy Corp., which now claims more than half the market, in contrast to about 30% for Nicoderm. But Ciba-Geigy, which has already sold more than 70 million Habitrol patches, has been...
Anyway, all the fuss could make a mere junior like myself jealous. Or even sick. In fact, all the fuss took my breath away--literally. I think I am the first casualty of Commencement...
Clark embodies the ultimate Harvard student-athlete. Dedicated, giving, inspiring and unassuming are just a few of the ways teammates and coaches describe her. She quietly and consistently gets the job done with a minimum of flash or fuss...
...research project has also cut out some much loved paintings, once considered essential masterpieces, milestones in his art, like Berlin's Man with the Golden Helmet. This has caused tremendous indignation in some quarters -- a fuss comparable to the moment when Bernard Berenson made his name as an enfant terrible by downgrading half the supposed canon of Lorenzo Lotto nearly 100 years...