Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...article about America as a public-spirited bicentennial observance. The article appears in this month's Esquire, flanked by two full-page ads ("low keyed," Xerox calls them) that identify Xerox as the sponsor of a journalistic first, a "special in print." There has been a certain amount of fuss about all this, which Salisbury may have anticipated ("A first I thought, gee whiz, should I do this," he said). In the Ellsworth (Maine) Times, E.B. White said he detected "the shadow of disaster" in the Salisbury-Xerox nexus and wondered if next we will see Gulden's Mustard commissioning...
...19th century in Chepachet, Rhode Island, farming and sometimes building sleighs for $17.69 each. Before he gets too far into it, Salisbury interrupts the part about Hiram to explain what he is up to, and you soon begin to wonder if his researches were worth all the fuss or the money...
...that the independents and liberals have played weekly since reform Cambridge civic government began, seemed foolish. After all, as at least one observer marvelled while walking out of the chambers this week, if the mayor's position is such a ceremonial one, why all the fuss? Why can't one of the independents coax the other four into unanimity? And if the mayoralty of Cambridge really is in name only, why can't the liberals put four and one together and make five...
...Pier Paolo Pasolini was, then, a political phony, a mediocre poet, an opportunist filmmaker capitalizing on the Roman desire for circuses with lots of blood and sex, and if his death was such a senseless piece of violence--why all the fuss? Was the shock expressed by all Italy, and especially Rome, merely political propaganda of the PCI, melodramatics of the intellectual elite, and bloodthirsty scan-dalmongering on the part of the greater public? Of course all this contributed to the clamor, but there was something else behind the strong reaction of the students who marched through Rome in mourning...
...fuss about terminating life [Nov. 3]? It's done every day in abortion clinics...