Word: fussing
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...fuss over foliage bewildered some natives. Watching the traffic creep past him, one old Granite State sage concluded, "After they go home I've got to pick up all these leaves...
...drug addiction (The Vortex) and homosexuality (Ross). Like them, Shaffer possesses an apparently flawless intuition about how much he can shock the audience without turning it off. Coming from a nation that reveres horses, he shrewdly placed a completely nude love scene-which might otherwise have caused a fuss-just before the boy's outrage on the horses. He also has an ear tuned to his audience's particular anxieties. He speaks of the modern struggle to live with ambiguities: the knowledge that any good course can be immediately opposed by another equally possible one. It is this...
...help instill in all women a sense of sexual self-determination. In rape victims, wondering what they should have done leads to guilt. In any woman, lack of a strong and secure knowledge of her own sexual rights: her right to question an intent, to scream, to make a fuss, to stand up and fight back, is a hazard that no training in karate, no can of mace can overcome...
...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...