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...People were making a big fuss in those days because a dog was caught in Lamont Library--but a woman could not get in," remembers Caroline Greve Darst...
...help only the J.R. Ewing types. "Most Americans seem to have little sympathy or understanding for the plight of the U.S. oil industry," says Sam Nakagama, a Manhattan economic consultant. Thurow concurs: "If you impose a tax on New England to subsidize Texas, there would be a big fuss...
...surprising. Alfred Burin was celebrating his 100th birthday, after all. What stirred up the media last week was that he still has a virtually full-time job, making him apparently the oldest working American. For the life of him, though, Burin could not understand all the fuss. Even when his cake at NBC's Today show caught fire, engulfing the centenarian in smoke, he was thinking of his job as chairman of the Globe Shipping Co. in Jersey City. "Such confusion," says Burin of his TV appearance. "I just wanted to get to work." In 1902 Burin started...
...national media makes the same sort of fuss over dissension among people of color--as if we're supposed to be a monolith, think alike, see the world in the same way simply because we are a shade darker than others--or for some other reason we can't, or don't want to, explain...
...tonking in American music that runs way back, considerably before rock, to the blues bars, jazz joints and love parlors where rag and Dixie got going from the turn of the century on. These days, call a group a bar band and you mean they play rock with no fuss and maybe a little sloppiness that can pass for funk. The Fabulous Thunderbirds, who made their first album in 1979 and have opened concerts for the Rolling Stones, still have the true chugalug spirit of a bar band--you can almost hear the beer bottles whistling past their heads during...