Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHAT'S ALL the fuss? you ask. Can't a writer paint pictures of the society he sees, even the hypersensitive sex-and-social-life carnival, without failing prey to political ire? If everywhere Frederick Barthelme looks, he sees women who terrify him--women taking the sexual initiative, women not concerned whether or not they are at a particular moment wanted, something very much like that must be happening around...
Clearly, the briefing-book fuss had renewed old rivalries among the Reagan aides. Casey and Meese seemed to be trying to focus responsibility on Baker, a relative newcomer in the Reagan staff hierarchy who is viewed by the Republican right as too much of a moderating influence on the President. Meese, however, cannot separate himself that neatly from another instance of Carter White House information reaching the Reagan election staff. Richard Allen, Reagan's former National Security Adviser, has admitted receiving on three occasions what he calls "innocuous, trite, useless, nonsubstantive, nonclassified and unsolicited material" from Carter...
...forced their way into the modern consciousness. In The Metamorphosis, Gregor Samsa turns into an insect; in A Hunger Artist, a professional faster starves himself to death "because I couldn't find the food I liked. If I had found it, believe me, I should have made no fuss and stuffed myself like you or anyone else." In In the Penal Colony, needles write the excruciating message BE JUST on the back of a condemned man. In Investigations of a Dog, the canine narrator cannot admit that his species is subject to the whim and will of a larger...
Still, the Administration's handling of the miniscandal did much to feed the inquisitiveness of reporters. Reagan had first dismissed the fuss as "much ado about nothing." Budget Director David Stockman, who had used the papers while playing the role of Carter to rehearse Reagan for the debate, claimed that he did not know how the documents had been acquired. Chief of Staff James Baker readily admitted having seen the book and said he got it from CIA Director William Casey, who was then Reagan's campaign manager. Casey said he had "no recollection" of having seen...
Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown, 49, the husband of TV Sportscaster Phyllis George, and a dark-horse presidential aspirant, is not a target of the probe. But the investigation is focused squarely on one of his best buddies. The Governor was obliged to answer questions about the fuss at a press conference last week. Though the FBI and the local U.S. Attorney will not comment officially, a main subject of the probe is James Lambert, who owns a local discothèque and whose home had been under surveillance by state and federal investigators...