Word: fussing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite all the fuss, Hamilton's book emerges as a canny and engaging variation on that old journalistic ploy: how to write a lively story about not getting the story. In Search of J.D. Salinger is basically a tour de force, impressively written but a bit precious. The author invents an alter ego , character who prods the legally lamed Ian Hamilton to get on with his project despite the court's restrictions on paraphrasing. He also takes the liberty of imagining what Salinger might say to him: "It is you I hate. You are a snooper and a thief...
...media, who have made such a fuss over lack of Blacks in professional sports, should not be so high and mighty. Quick, name a Black baseball announcer...
...such a fuss over doctors' offices? Because few public arenas provide such a large captive audience. These page-flipping patients not only are counted in readership surveys used to determine advertising rates but often end up as subscribers. Losing such readers would be a severe blow to magazines like Expecting and PEOPLE, which find a substantial share of their audience in the waiting rooms...
Travelers are willing to follow circuitous paths simply to drop more free miles into their kitty. Reports Ardi Perry, a travel agent at Aquarius Travel Service in West Palm Beach, Fla.: "We have people who will change in Atlanta and accept a layover when they used to fuss. It's just to build up mileage." Passengers go out of their way to stay on the same carrier whenever possible. That is the main benefit that frequent-flyer clubs offer to the airlines. Says John Pincavage, an airline analyst at the Paine Webber investment firm: "The | frequent-flyer plan...
...Independence is the only way for us to go now," says George Mye, chairman of the islanders' 19-member Coordinating Council. After initially dismissing the fuss, Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke last week dispatched a Cabinet minister to Thursday, the capital, for discussions. The government then promised to set up a commission to safeguard the islanders' interests every day of the week...