Word: fussing
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...this hard country is wearing down, and there is in his performance an interesting element. He knows his time is past, but there's nothing elegiac in that awareness. There's a kind of calmness, a determination to go on behaving as he always has, without fuss, feathers or moral fervor. He plays what amounts to a classic America hero, but without once acknowledging the long line of such figures - in movie history his antecedents date back to silent pictures - that inform his character. No Country for Old Men, in the violence of the behavior it portrays, in the starkness...
...constructive relationship with students, it should not renege previous commitments. Since a university is a private institution, students are obligated to respect administrative decisions, even if they are unpopular. But when Harvard is willing to disregard established rules and procedures it becomes difficult to fault students for making a fuss. We hope the new agreement between the UC and the College will help bring an end to this unfortunate episode...
...already been controversial in his homeland. Chinese officials pressured him not to publish, he says, and even made veiled threats toward his family still living in China. The Chinese version, published in 2003, was banned - although it became a black-market best seller. Gao is unsurprised by the fuss. "After Tiananmen, the government lost power," he says. "Zhou is now the only party leader who the people respect and love. If his reputation is destroyed, there will be no symbol for the party." At a time when its reins on China's economic, cultural and social values are loosening...
Having not been around for 2004, I decided to see what all the fuss was about with the Rolling Rally—the post-World Series parade that takes the entire Red Sox players, players’ families, front office, etc. on a Duck Boat armada from Fenway, down Boylston, and ultimately to City Hall...
...fuss and fight over the trials and dilemmas of American mothers, a quiet revolution is occurring in fatherhood. "Men today are far more involved with their families than they have been at virtually any other time in the last century," says Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History. In the late 1970s, sociologists at the University of Michigan found that the average dad spent about a third as much time with his kids as the average mom did. By 2000, that was up to three-fourths. The number of stay-at-home fathers has tripled...