Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite all the fuss this fall about students giving input to Harvard's governing boards, there is one group of trustees on campus, Radcliffe's, which permits students to listen in and contribute to debate. Although the three representatives from the Radcliffe Union of Students can't vote, they certainly can make their cases heard--when they want to, that...
While the Iran-contra scandal has virtually monopolized the attention of the American media since last November, Europeans tend to wonder what the fuss is all about. To a great many of them, the scandal seems like yet another perplexing case of American moralism run wild, a national exercise in self- flagellation. Many Europeans, who also never fully understood why Americans became so upset by the Watergate affair in the mid-1970s, feel that such a crisis could never happen in their own countries. TIME's Paris bureau chief Jordan Bonfante examines the European bewilderment concerning Iranscam...
...space" that Stella presents from his own works are not very convincing arguments; exploiting the extra dimension seems to have added little to his own work. And when Julian Schnabel can go 3-D by painting on smashed crockery, one starts to wonder why Stella is making all this fuss about perspective...
...fuss over trade right now? Deadlines in the various negotiations happened to coincide, but the actions also reflect continued U.S. frustration over its trade deficit. In November the U.S. recorded its worst monthly deficit ever: $19.2 billion, up from $12.1 billion in October. U.S. officials pointed out that extraordinary factors were involved, including the rush of consumers to buy imported items like autos before tax reform eliminated sales-tax deductions. Said U.S. Under Secretary for International Trade Bruce Smart: "We remain confident that 1987 will see a significant improvement." Maybe so, but the November figure meant that the 1986 deficit...
From all the fuss, you would have thought it was a theft of the Elgin Marbles or the rape of the Sabine women. "Criminal mutilation," says Woody Allen. "Artistic desecration," says the Directors Guild of America. "Cultural vandalism," says the Western branch of the Writers Guild of America. Not since Ingrid Bergman was run out of town on a morals charge has Hollywood been & in such a pious fit. Directors, actors, critics, even the odd editorialist, have risen as one to denounce the depredations of -- colorization...