Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole act. The tug of war consists of monotonous arguments between Sara and Deborah as to who's stronger and more loving. Just when one of the ladies seems about to edge out the competition, Simon's indecision changes the tide of battle. Frankly, he's not worth the fuss...
Greenberg sticks by his guns. "I can answer to my conscience," he declares. "Were I to have known that this fuss would come up I would still have done the same thing, and I'm only sorry I didn't do it earlier." But conscience is not the point. The point is that altering the work of a dead artist - especially one of Smith's eminence - is an arrogant intrusion that borders on vandalism. We are entitled to the work as it left Smith's hand, warts and all. Perhaps the best thing to be said...
...great leak fuss had been reinforced by Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's emotional protest in Salzburg over reports taking issue with his version of the 1969 initiation of wiretaps against Government officials and newsmen. That furor was surprisingly quieted last week as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee delayed any new hearings on the topic, as sought by Kissinger, until after he returns with Nixon from Moscow...
...sheet Le Meilleur claimed to have talked with Mme. Santoni, who insisted that the cardinal's visit was entirely platonic. "He was fully dressed," she reportedly told the paper. "[He] collapsed after climbing the four stories to my flat." She seemed unimpressed by all the furor: "Too much fuss is being made about this quite unimportant affair...
...this fuss is because he is a public official, why don't we require tax audits for all public officials, including members of the Congressional Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation...