Word: fusses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acknowledges Fossey's courage in trying to protect an endangered band of mountain gorillas; he also discovers that her love for the great apes was matched by her contempt for the Rwandan people. In the Central African Republic he encounters people who wonder why the West makes such a fuss about eating human flesh. Visiting his first AIDS clinic, he is greeted by a doctor visibly wasting away with the disease he is supposed to treat...
TELEVISION'S role in this year's election has been much discussed. The significance of "sound bites" and "spin doctors" has equalled concerns over the deficit or defense or health care. Last week's fuss over the NBC mini-series Favorite Son pointed up the campaign's love/hate tempest with the pervasive boob tube. Now, it seems, politics is in dialogue not only with the network news shows but with primetime soap operas as well...
...public fuss over the First Lady's finery started in November 1981 after she voluntarily informed the White House staff that she had been accepting clothes as gifts, including a $25,000 Galanos creation that she wore to the 1981 Inauguration. She asked whether this was wrong. White House attorneys advised that she could accept clothes as loans but would have to disclose them...
...government, or any government, then centering on the individual triumphs of Eva would impart an important, if not entirely orginal, lesson: that fate lies ultimately in each person's hands. But if we are to believe that hope lies in a democratic government taking power, then why all the fuss about Eva, and why such a conscious effort by Allende to avoid discussing politics directly...
...Kennedy School of Government plans to become an international center, then call it a school of diplomacy or of foreign relations. Otherwise, observers should ask: Why all the fuss...