Word: fussing
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Just like in real movieland, it's the arrangements rather than the filmmaking itself that seem to be getting all the attention. Brown says he is often most intrigued with the business aspects of filmmaking and, judging from all the fuss, this is what he does best. He says he had "fun" going through red tape to gain access to the Library of Congress and the Plaza Hotel, and lining up a cavalcade of actors for the show. Of Brown's $1200 budget only $350 went to the basic costs of filming: a sizeable portion of the rest paid...
BEAME's difficulties in finding honest officials, at least according to The Times, stemmed in large part from the fuss people have made about the Nixon administration's corruption. "A heightened sensitivity to political ethics in the year after Watergate" meant Beame had to make assurance doubly sure, The Times explained, if he didn't want to face New York's aroused and angry people. After all, the Nixon administration's crimes have included five years (so far) of the Indochina war, from the ground war to the Christmas bombing to the secret bombing of Cambodia to building General Thieu...
...absolutely terrified. I tell you about it in order to protect myself from myself." Vita wanted so badly to be rescued that she even treasured unsatisfactory replies like this: "Being a woman, you will say, 'Well, he can't love me very much, as he would have made more fuss.' More fuss! When my heart feels like a pêche Melba...
...with the help of a rescue mission. But there were also lesser tensions. "We tended to get a little short with one another," Bean explained. "It would kind of build up over three or four days. [Then] it would always reach a little climax where we would kind of fuss with each other a little bit, and that would be the end of it. It was almost like a family arrangement with your wife, where things work in cycles...
...ladies' talk that followed, you'd think that King's victory was going down in history as a landmark of the Liberation, as epoch-making as the day of Ibsen's Nora's doorslam, or the day that tanks succeeded cavalry. But after all the fuss, the match wasn't much. It wasn't much...