Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adrenaline is just beginning to flow now, just beginning to lift us. We look at the altimeters on our wrists or chest bands the way commuters look at their watches while waiting for a bus. As the needle climbs, the adrenaline begins to flow faster. We fuss with our equipment, checking again the closures on jumpsuits, the buckles on parachute harnesses, the positions of rip cords on the pilot chutes that will deploy canopies and break our headlong fall to earth...
...adopted for general application in almost all social and political controversies. Some groups of Long Island residents howled and demonstrated effectively for a while against the Concorde's landing in New York as if it were a fresh incursion into Cambodia. In North Carolina, where wets and dries fuss interminably over the issue of legalizing liquor by the drink, all partisans tend to hurl themselves into the fray as though life and death depend on whether brown-bagging survives or goes by the boards. When the zealous spirit prevails, all perspective seems lost...
What's all the fuss about Jimmy Carter's "personal" success and "personal" achievement in the Camp David talks? It was not his spiritual faculties but the immense economic and military power of the U.S. that enabled the President to put pressure on Israel and Egypt and bring about some promising results. The summit was destined not to fail: What would Israel be without U.S. support...
...slightly ghoulish fuss raised over the suddenness of John Paul's death. As is the case when any world figure dies unexpectedly, rumors of foul play inevitably circulated and were not easily stilled, especially after Milan's respected Corriere della Sera called for an autopsy. The situation did not improve when it was learned that, contrary to the Vatican's first description of John Paul's last moments, what the Pope may have been reading when he died of a heart attack was not Thomas a Kempis' Imitation of Christ but a document written...
...long before he became a veteran actor, is in command of the American detachment and in solid command of the best starring role he has had in years (he was, of course, superb as the dying patriarch, a character role in Bertolucci's sprawling 1900). Without the slightest fuss, he gives us a portrait of a dutybound professional whose soldierly instincts tell him that his duty this time is madness. Revolt is beyond his character, but disgust is not. Lancaster's presence, carrying with it the memory of other wars (and a different sort of war movie), provides...