Word: uptightness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...naked editors of the Yale Daily, feel that if those hairy-chested alums and their buxom, matronly wives could be a little less uptight and a little more politically aware, the world would be a better, happier, and more pollution-free place...
Erpingham (John Claflin) is the name of the director of a chain of British holiday camps, an upper crust, uptight version of Club Med. He is the Great Oppressor/Dictator/Imperialist, demanding religiously fanatic devotion and obeisance from his workers and campers while envisioning a world-spanding empire of holiday camps. He declares off-handedly that his campers don't have rights, only privileges--even food is a privilege...
...used to get so uptight for every meet. I used to get really upset very easily. I tended to be a perfectionist and that was sometimes detrimental to my performance," Sugrue said. "So, now I'm trying to relax...
...They should give some disclaimer to the idea of a deadline. A lot of people get uptight about that. I did," said Ned Keaton...
...this film, however, Durang's heresy is dull, and his perversions are pat. When this set of plays appeared in Dublin, the Irish, who always celebrate really good sacrilege with a riot, responded with a universal yawn. Some Boston Catholics are more uptight about Durang, and they make the controversy that sells the tickets. But controversy can't hold up a chaotic script whose absurdity is less than comic...