Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fuss? The word is out that eating oats can lower cholesterol levels in the blood. Result: groceries and supermarkets can't keep oat products on the shelves. Sales of oatmeal have jumped 20% this year, and oat- bran purchases have more than quintupled. The Quaker Oats plant in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, is working three shifts every day and still not meeting demand. At the Real Food Co. in San Francisco, a health-food emporium, sales of bulk oat bran have tripled in the past year to 1,000 lbs. a month. Sales of oat- based breakfast cereals and cookies have...
Still, the fuss over oats is unlikely to abate soon. One reason Americans find the grain prescription so attractive, says Researcher Anderson, is that it offers relief from the barrage of negative advice. "People get tired," he explains, "of being told what...
...ordinary heat wave, Americans typically fume and fuss, grab relief where they can, and slog through the pestiferous weather with sweaty humor and prayers of gratitude to the great god A.C. This summer's record-busting hot spell, however, has aroused an extraordinary response. On top of the usual chafing at day after sticky day of hot, humid and hazy punishment has come a communal attack of the worries. Many Americans have found themselves concerned less about passing misery and more about the whole bruised and abused human habitat. Soggy, unremitting heat sometimes seemed a symptom of general ecological collapse...
...human experience. Does the latter make him a less serious painter? Of course not, any more than it trivialized the work of that still underrated artist Raoul Dufy. At root, Hockney is popular because his work offers a window through which one's eye moves without strain or fuss into a wholly consistent world. That world has its cast of recurrent characters -- friends, lovers and family. Hockney's portraits of his parents, in particular, are full of unabashed filial devotion, and through repeated drawings and paintings he has given the portly form of his friend and promoter Henry Geldzahler...
...notorious "Senator No," scourge of the Senate? Poor, misunderstood Jesse Helms. A bulky 6 ft. 2 in., he has a jowly, owlish face; his sparse white hair is slicked back, and his eyebrows, frozen like question marks above his eyes, seem to ask, "Who me, cause a fuss?" A sometime Sunday-school teacher, he is fond of saying, "Well, bless your heart," his voice a velvet bass carried by a Carolina drawl. But in an instant, a glint appears in his eye as he hatches yet another plan to tie the Senate in knots. Meet the other Jesse Helms...