Word: fussed
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...project at various times —one cannot help but wonder how these auteurs might have better delivered on the show’s promise.If Columbus’ film is your first exposure to the musical, you’re not likely to understand what all the fuss was about. But try to keep in mind that, once upon a time, “Rent” was a vital work of art.—Staff writer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu...
...people at the Flemington track (and around 10 million Australian television viewers), many of them teaming blue-and-red Makybe caps and masks with their feathers and ties, were more nervous than the favorite, who was characteristically unfazed by the heat and fuss. She didn't run the fastest (record-holder Kingston Rule was three seconds quicker in 1990) or carry the heaviest handicap weight (the legendary Carbine carried 65.5-kg to win in 1890). But that hardly mattered to the whooping crowd, who reached toward the victor's gleaming flanks as she came past. "Have you ever seen...
...video’s ramshackle aesthetic is the perfect compliment to the Silver Jews’ sound: “How Can I Love You” is, at heart, just old-fashioned honky-tonk music, and too much visual fuss would have muddied its simple pleasures...
...mortality in the country has been cut in half; the program is now getting the vitamin to pregnant women too, among whom eye disease has plummeted, from 23% to 3%. Shrestha does not minimize what he has accomplished for his country, but he is too modest to make a fuss about it. "As a Nepali," he says, "I figured it was my duty...
...star and businessman whose contempt for formality is acute, enthuses about Prince Charles: "He does a lot, he's hugely underappreciated. He takes the side of the people over what the newspapers and the biens pensants want. I have a lot of time for him. He kicks up a fuss." There's more: Charles' preoccupations are often prescient. Organic farming was marginal to the point of ridicule when he first started converting his Gloucestershire farm 20 years ago; David Wilson, the manager, said "even within his own organization, people felt it was dangerous, wacky, could be shot down...