Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...members said they thought the protest was an overreaction. "This is an enormous fuss for a parody," said one member who refused to be identified. "We're just a bunch of guys who go in for a couple of beers...
...worrying for days about how to get rid of the punk without killing him himself. The police arrive and accept with little reluctance Peets' description of an accidental death. No one is exactly happy that Leon is gone, but neither does anybody think it worthwhile to make a fuss over the manner of his departure...
...coast, orphaned in infancy and raised by an extended family of apes, he is rescued and restored to his patrimony by a passing explorer (Ian Holm, who symbolizes humanity at its best). Unfortunately, he fits as uneasily into English society as he did into simian society, despite the loving fuss made over him by his grandfather (the late Ralph Richardson in all his glorious eccentricity). The old man's death, when he attempts to break free of lordly constraint to celebrate his grandson's return, and the death of Tarzan's ape "father," at the hands...
...former student of one of the most talented and inspiring professors at Harvard College, I was appalled to see such a fuss made over Professor James Q. Wilson's radar detector-a device which is not only legal in Massachusetts, but frequently used as well. A quick walk through any of the student parking lots in fact demonstrates that few undergraduates see anything wrong with owning such instruments...
What, then, is the fuss about? Why on issues such as the Nativity display and school prayer cannot the majority simply say, "Take it or leave it"? On the crèche issue, that is what the court decided it could say, though not without a lot of irrelevant hand wringing about the "passive symbolism" of the Nativity display as opposed to the "active symbolism," say, of the cross. (The distinction is meaningless.) In the matter of school prayer, the court continues to hold its ground, but why? And why not have an amendment allowing everyone to pray...