Word: fusses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Simplot professes to be surprised by all the fuss. "There's nothing to get excited about," he told TIME Correspondent Eileen Shields. "I think it will all work out." How could a market professional like Simplot, at 67 a veteran of half a century in the potato business, get drawn into such a mess? The biggest factor was the volatility of the May potato-futures contract. From a low of $5.92 per 100 Ibs. of potatoes in February 1975, when trading in the May contract began, the price zoomed to almost $20, dropped back to $8, went up again...
...dancing and casual listening. At every concert Silly Love Songs gets the same amuck reception as Yesterday or any of the other five Beatles tunes McCartney performs during the course of the evening. Sometimes even bigger. Like much of McCartney's recent work, the song slips neatly, without fuss, into the mainstream...
More than 20,000 couples will do something furtive in California this year-they will marry. State law allows confidential marriages with a minimum of fuss: no marriage license, no blood test, no three-day waiting period and, best of all, no public record that the marriage ever took place...
...Stylist Eric Lintermans, owner of Linter-mans in Beverly Hills: "It lifts the face. The cut by the cheekbones can subtract years from a woman's face." Also, he notes, it can be styled in minutes with a blow dryer: "I think women are tired of having to fuss with their hair-of brushing and spraying and curling." To Fashion Designer Rudi Gernreich, the wedge is simply part of the new concept in dressing. Says he: "American women are beginning to be clean again, getting rid of the clutter." Some of the converts to the uncluttered coif: Dancer...
...excerpts do not a book make. It seems clear now, after a long, slow reading of the 456 pages of narrative, that almost nobody had actually taken the trouble to read the book before getting in on all the fuss. Here, several points seem in order...