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Word: uptightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Because of the timing, choosing a concentration is often clouded by the question of choosing a house," said Golob, former chair of the council Academics Committee. "Students get so uptight and upset about that, they don't spend enough time thinking about what in the long run is a much more significant decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshmen Look at Concentrations | 3/3/1989 | See Source »

Clint is a shy college-type guy; Ricky is a blustering would-be stud. Rhonda is a brainy, uptight man-hater and Cheryl a misunderstood beauty who only wants to have fun. Fill in the various permutations yourself; the play ends with everybody's personality suitably adjusted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Stage Door | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

...kind of bourgeois shrine. The scene could have been plausible if we had seen Annie struggle with these inconsistencies. Instead, her actions prove that the Popes are in no way different from any other middle-class family except that they occasionally make "socially aware" comments and are not uptight about...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Rebels Without a Clue | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

...until she learns that she has inherited a mansion. But the mansion is creepy, and it has a "recipe book" in the kitchen that Elvira's sinister Uncle Vincent (W. Morgan Sheppard) will go to any length to obtain. Mansion, magic book and menacing uncle are in a morally uptight, Salem-like Massachusetts town called Fallwell, run by gossipy biddy Chastity Pariah (Edie McClurg...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Wicked Good Fun | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

...popularity with show-business people, who usually do not frequent the couture. "People like Faye Dunaway and Bette Midler are in a profession of appearances," he says. "They are glad to find street clothes reminiscent of their stage costumes, and they are glad to find that we're not uptight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Voila! It's Fun a Lacroix | 2/8/1988 | See Source »

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