Word: fussing
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Much of the fuss centers on the revelation in the family memoir, re-created in the movie, that Du Pre had a 16-month affair with her brother-in-law and that the relationship was condoned by her sister Hilary. When excerpts appeared in the London Sunday Times, outraged fans and friends of Jacqueline's vilified the book, charging that it sullied one of Britain's greatest virtuosos. Hilary and Piers defend their memoir as an attempt to reveal the personal side of their sister and argue that the excerpts played up the sensational parts of the story. "If people...
...home. "Why am I living in a world where I walk onto my porch on a summer afternoon and smell the Mexican jungle on fire?" he asks, um, heatedly. "I mean, that's it--you can't talk me down from that! I'm going to kick and fuss for the next 20 years...
...Steven Abramson, chairman of the FDA advisory panel, was impressed--and not at all surprised that the big drug companies were kicking up a fuss. "The cox-2 inhibitor will make it very difficult for them to compete," he says. Which could explain why Merck, Johnson & Johnson and Glaxo Wellcome are rushing to get their own versions into trial as fast as possible...
...Orwellian corruption. The trouble is, I also like the libertarian thought that a person damn well has a right to die when he wants to. The solution I propose to Cathy is this: what we already have--a quiet, informal, private routine in which families and physicians agree, without fuss and in an unofficial zone below the purview of the law, to withhold further treatment, to cut off nourishment, to shut down the IV, even to administer a little more morphine (a gray area between omission and commission) than would be indicated ordinarily. In other words, to pull the plug...
...impeachment are voted out of Hyde's committee, they would die in the full House. And though tension in the Persian Gulf is abating, this week's hearings might still take place under the threat of a real-world exchange of fire there, something that could make the continuing fuss over Bill and Monica seem just a bit petty and exasperating. Among the 81 questions that Hyde sent two weeks ago to the White House was whether Clinton admitted or denied that he had given Monica Lewinsky an Annie Lennox CD. It was the one that opens with the love...