Word: fusses
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...coverage of his run of early legislative successes, the First Lady was granted no press honeymoon. "From . the beginning," she says now, "I was certainly aware that everybody was not just cuckoo about me." She was caricatured as the high-handed queen of a new Gilded Age, making a fuss over fops and froufrous just as a painful national recession was setting in. Muffie Brandon, her social secretary, was joking when she spoke of a "tablecloth crisis" at the White House, but the new concern for elegance was real. The First Lady had some of the Reagans' rich friends, among...
Some people, most of them male, wondered what all the fuss was about, the tears and excitement. How would they have felt, the men, if the rules had been reversed? What if, in the 197 years since the Constitution was written, someone of their sex had never been considered for the job? What if, apart from a male President, they had never seen a male bishop, or chairman of the board of General Motors? They would have felt the way women did before Geraldine Ferraro was nominated to run for Vice President on the Democratic ticket. Excluded...
...impulsive speaker who has required public correction before, and reflects the thinking of Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping. The remark was misinterpreted abroad as a major ideological shift, evidently persuading Chinese reformers to qualify Hu's words for fear of inciting a back lash among party conservatives. "Such a fuss is the last thing we wanted," said a Chinese intellectual. "We need a quiet revolution...
...fuss over the mail-order MiGs will not go down in the history books as one of the Reagan Administration's finest hours. The various anonymous Administration sources who were supplying the breathless warnings of Nicaraguan misdeeds sounded less like belligerent hawks than professional Chicken Littles, proclaiming the doom of MiG 21's within range of America's banana supplies. The leaking hysteria became a flood that engulfed even the normally cool-headed Sen. Paul E. Tsongas (D-Mass.), who warned that if the MiG's were aboard the Soviet freighters, American military action would be necessary...
...press is going to shout so much about my 18-in. skirts, I shall renounce paternity." In one sense he already has: all his skirts will be shipped to stores at knee length, leaving the exact specifications up to the purchaser. Gianfranco Ferre, who showed minis, thought the whole fuss was show biz. Said he: "I keep the same proportions on the runway as on the racks...