Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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More than 30 years later, as "Rashomon" makes its appearance at the Harvard Film Archives as a bona fide classic of world cinema, it is difficult to see what all the fuss was about. The respect that Japanese cinema commands nowadays, respect won in part by "Rashomon" prevents one from imagining a time when this wasn't the case, a time in which "Roshomon" would have come as a bomb of sorts...
...fuss began when it was discovered in 1985 that the strain of HIV Gallo presented to the world the year before was virtually identical to a strain isolated by Montagnier in 1983. Since Gallo's lab and the Pasteur Institute cooperated regularly and swapped viral cultures, suspicion arose that Gallo had appropriated the French virus as his own. Gallo acknowledged that the two viruses were the same and that Montagnier had found it first. But Gallo maintained that his lab had independently isolated it from patients' blood samples, not stolen it out of one of Montagnier's samples. Furthermore, % Gallo...
Doug Spitnaly, an employee of the game's distributor, Woburn Vending, said he could not understand what all the fuss was about...
...first-year center radiates confidence and ease. She doesn't seem to understand what the fuss is all about--but to everyone else she looks like the future of Harvard hockey...
...shots really are worth the fuss and bother. A three-year study of people ages 45 and older who live in the Canadian province of Manitoba found that without the vaccine, the number of hospital admissions for influenza and pneumonia would have been 40% higher...