Word: fussed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Godfathers, and his two sons were indicted for racketeering last year. In accepting the donation, however, Schneider officials take a practical view. "Our mission," says a spokeswoman, "is to save lives." The father of a future patient puts the issue more starkly: "I don't understand what all the fuss is about. I have a daughter who will die if she doesn't get a transplant...
RELIGION Computer-generated Dead Sea scrolls cause a fuss...
...culture: the only thing an unhappy woman needs is good sex to make everything all right. After a night of knock-over- the-nightstand sex with the hitchhiker, Thelma comes down to the coffee shop suffused with satisfaction and tells Louise, "I finally understand what all the fuss is about." Thelma is transformed, more confident and buoyant than she has ever been, reducing her angst to the simplistic notion that she was stuck with a husband who was insufficiently accomplished in the bedroom...
...fact that both Bushes developed the same rare disorder may seem surprising, but it is not inexplicable. Just as somebody always wins a lottery in which the odds are 3 million to 1, so some couples are bound to suffer identical fates. "No one made such a fuss over us when my husband and I both developed Graves' within three years of each other," says Denise Ploetz, an adult-education teacher from Newark, Ohio, whose condition was diagnosed in 1976. "Our doctor just said it was a coincidence...
...Europe sampling has created some controversial musical stews. The techno- rockers EMF have stirred up a fuss with their single Lies, in which they sample the voice of Mark David Chapman, the John Lennon assassin, reciting lyrics from Lennon's last album. To create the disco hit Sadeness, Part I, Romanian-born producer Michael Cretu sampled Gregorian chants, juxtaposed them with whispered verses from the Marquis de Sade, and set them to a metronomic beat. Whether such sampling is artistry "depends on how you use it," says Cretu. "If you are a really creative person...