Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COUPLE consists of a gruff sportswriter (Walter Matthau) and a fuss-budgety newscaster (Art Carney) who share living quarters after losing their wives. Thanks to them, plus Playwright Neil Simon and Director Mike Nichols, this ménage is a Niagara of laughter...
Pathos in a Line. Other Peanuts characters pop up from time to time. Lucy has several fuss-budget understudies: Patty, Sally, Violet and Frieda. Pig-Pen is a "human soil bank" who raises a cloud of dust on a perfectly clean street and passes out gumdrops that are invariably black. Mop-haired Schroeder is always banging out Beethoven on the piano or gazing soulfully at a bust of the master ("I picked Beethoven," says Schulz, "because he is sort of pompous and grandiose. I like Brahms better"). Lucy is in love with Schroeder, but he is too busy with Beethoven...
Significantly, the Communist capitals were silent until they noticed the fuss that was being raised elsewhere. Only then did Peking weigh in with a blast against America's "fascist cannibals." Hanoi, which must have been aware for months that gas was being used, belatedly picked up the cue from Britain and deplored the "barbarity...
Stirring Opposition. Despite the progress, many Brazilians are less than enthusiastic about Castello Branco. Partly it is the man. Grim and aloof, he carries out his duties with no fuss, no fanfare-and little apparent relish. Critics charge that he is the prisoner of a military clique that uses anti-Communism as an excuse to run roughshod over the country's laws. Some local military commanders are still arresting suspected subversives and holding them without bringing specific charges. Last week an estimated 1,500 "suspects" remained locked away, including Miguel Arraes, ex-governor of Pernambuco...
When Ranger was 1,300 miles from the moon, other orders climbed the radio beam from California and told the spacecraft to turn on its six TV cameras. Without further fuss the incredible moon photos began to come down in a steady stream. In 1.3 seconds they made the long journey from the moon to J.P.L.'s control station in the Mojave Desert. They jumped by microwave to Pasadena, appeared in crisp detail on fine-grained, 1,152-line picture tubes and were transformed into the standard 500-line pictures of U.S. commercial television. Never had so many people...