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Word: fusses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rompollo, 40, says Mrs. Carter prefers "a beautiful, covered look, not too much fuss or too many frills." With that in mind, he has also created her swearing-in togs: an understated wool dress with a fitted waist and slightly flared skirt, a classic wool coat and a fringed wool shawl. All are in a rich blue-green Rompollo calls "Rosalynn green...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Inaugural Togs: Less Is More | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...everyone was negative about the weather. Remarked nonchalant Erica Foldy '80, "Personally I can't understand what all the fuss is about. I mean, what's a little...

Author: By Judy E. Matloff, | Title: Students Slip and Slide As Harvard Ices Over | 1/11/1977 | See Source »

...Then she headed for Italy, where next week she will sing the same role at La Scala. When not in the opera house, she is in the recording studios. Two new albums, French Opera Arias (Columbia) and Frederica von Stade Sings Mozart-Rossini Opera Arias (Philips), display what the fuss is about -a lustrous amber mezzo-soprano voice with an unusually high, sweet crystalline top and seemingly effortless agility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Von Stade: Forget the Magic | 12/13/1976 | See Source »

...really start to concentrate on anything else until I get things orderly," Spacek confesses, and this kind of dedicated fuss-budgetry gives her a strong center of gravity whenever celebrity threatens to throw her off balance. Says she: "The main thing is I don't want to lose myself. If I get hit by a car, I want to go out knowing I returned my neighbor's cake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Basic Spacek: Keeping Life Tidy | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

...would be difficult to prove, however, that Harvard handled the two cases differently because Brown-Beasley is white and Fredie is black. A more likely scenario is that Brown-Beasley could be fired with little fuss, his oddities and outspokenness having weakened his standing within the administration. The Fredie case, on the other hand, was potentially explosive: there were charges that Harvard higher-ups were involved in the alleged prostitution operation and students had definitely been linked to the case. Indeed the delay in the publicizing of the conviction suggests the care with which Harvard and the court authorities handled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Not Just Sour Grapes | 11/19/1976 | See Source »

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