Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their deadhead lost-child innocence-turned-guilt. Malick shows gory murders, then our sympathetic characters, and the inevitable tearing-apart this inflicts on the audience is supposed to pass for ambiguity and profanity. Well made by Malick, well acted, but all in all kinds boring and overrated, considering the fuss it's been getting...
Mixed Feelings. Not for long. The next day, area newspapers picked up the condom contretemps, and the issue gained the gloss of a civil liberties controversy. KNTV even found itself reporting the fuss, and aired the beach spot during its news broadcast. It then asked for viewers' opinions. The change of heart was instant: 8 to 1 in the commercial's favor. Some viewers were eager to complain about the ads they thought more offensive, like bad-breath treatments and sinus aids...
Such strained fictions have always seemed a lot of fuss to ichthyologists. Why bother to wake the creatures of unimaginably distant geologic ages when you can find, in a condition essentially unchanged for 63 million years, a creature cruising handily off every beach in the world who once shared the planet with dinosaurs, ichthyosaurs and pterosaurs and is as strange, unpredictable and dangerous as those bad old boys...
Other reasons for the silent exits are more self-serving. Dissidents do not prosper in Washington. The man who makes his opposition known quietly, then leaves without a fuss is likely to be rewarded with another high-level post later on. If he publicly tells why he is leaving, however, he is, the authors say, almost always left out in the cold thereafter. "Further prospects of service in the Executive Branch are out of the question. Appointments to the Judiciary are unlikely to be proffered. Election to Congress is virtually precluded...
...English countryside, which he loves, in his own curious way. He denies having been influenced by the ecology movement of the past decade: I've known and loved this countryside since about 1925. And I look back to more pleasant days when there wasn't so much damn fuss about the ecology and there were far fewer cars and people. In those days you could hear yourself think and get about...