Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Willimantic's citizens who bit the hand they had been feeding for so long realize that inevitably, they will end up paying taxes. Still, they feel that the fuss has been worthwhile. "Like throwing tea into the harbor," says one New Eng land mother of three, "we know it's just been a symbolic act. But it has raised our spirits and stopped our taxes from rising, and nowadays those are two pretty important victories...
...wanted responsibility for holding back a genius, the boy who didn't just look through the microscope at onion skin cells, but also took photographs of them; who didn't just take postcard pictures, but tried to blow them up to enormous wall murals. He was oblivious to the fuss, just as he never wondered whether he would rather be athletic or glib with girls than be alone in his basement so much of the time...
...science fiction stories deliberately overturned. The lab assistant, usually a mousily intelligent character who worships the Professor from afar, is here the dumbest blonde on film and never wears a lab coat. Because she has a heart of gold and sleeps with the Doctor without making a big fuss, she gets her man. Dr. Frankenstein's fiancee is gorgeous, but a fastidious prude--until she falls madly in love with the monster. The monster, hideous and despised by human society, becomes a sex symbol. Peter Boyle, as the monster, has eyes that say everything. Madeline Kahn is so luscious...
...Christmas issue focusing on our fisticuffs over whether the Bible is human or divine, when the whole nativity scene shows so eloquently that God has become fully human-diapers, crib and all. The manger story means that the divine speaks only through the human. So what is all the fuss about...
Giscard's purpose was to emphasize that such sessions should be so common and accepted in the European family that no one should make a fuss. "When the civil servants meet, they never take any decisions," said one of his aides. "When the foreign ministers meet, they take a few. We must get together the men who really control power in their countries, the heads of government, if we are to take the difficult decisions that face us." Assessing the conference, Italian Premier Aldo Moro said that "the Europe convened here in Paris is a Europe whose mechanisms...