Word: fusses
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With little fuss, and in a town still nursing a hangover from its last famous murder trial, opening arguments began last week in the Menendez retrial; the original concluded in January 1994 with two hung juries. The outlines of the case remain the same. Lyle and Erik, who were 21 and 18 at the time of the murders, have confessed to shooting their parents Jose and Kitty as they watched television in their Beverly Hills living room. Erik, now 24, will again be represented by Leslie Abramson (although this time she will be paid by the county to the tune...
...things weren't going his way, things wouldn't be going at all. After a day or two in his company, one gathers that Crichton would choose, in a fair world, to be treated like the next fellow; he would prefer that we acknowledge his genius, but make no fuss. ("How smart is Michael?" his wife was once asked. "How smart did he tell you he was?" she replied. It's a sly family). A fair world, he would say, would omit his private life from any public discussion...
...Prince Siegfried so overwrought when he goes hunting if his mother has not commanded him to find a suitable bride? In this version she just hands her boy a bow and arrow and trips off, doubtless to a good gossip with her courtiers. Or why make such a fuss about a glass slipper when Cinderella's prince walks into her house and recognizes her without fitting the slipper on her foot...
...vaccine, derived from live viruses, had become the preferred method of inoculation in the U.S., and Sabin was bitter about Salk's earlier triumph. Just a few years before his own death in 1993 Sabin claimed that "Salk didn't discover anything." Salk himself was often uncomfortable with the fuss made over him. He made a point of crediting others and tried to discourage use of the term "Salk vaccine...
...very generous clothing allowance," says Vogue's editor in chief Anna Wintour. "But if a designer gives me something, I absolutely have no problem with that. It's something I use my judgment about. It's not going to influence what you put in your pages. It's a fuss about nothing...