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Word: uptightness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gurney exhibits a fine sense of humor throughout the rest of the play. He avoids falling into romantic over-sentimentality by interspersing humor with touching dialogue. For example, when Andrew and Melissa's fifty-year relationship finally involves its first instance of lovemaking, Melissa says, "We're two uptight old WASPs going at it like a sale at Brooks Brothers...

Author: By Howie Axelrod, | Title: Engaging Love Letters | 2/20/1992 | See Source »

...have any answers to the sex thing, but I do have an alternate way of making students in this pressure-cooker of a school less uptight. Take naps...

Author: By Beth L. Pinsker, | Title: The Art of Napping | 11/14/1991 | See Source »

...kind of funny. You have to have friends who are uptight, so you can be glad you're not them" says Chicu Reddy '95. "Those kind of people are fun to be with in a Woody Allen-ish type...

Author: By June Shih, | Title: We're Anything Butt! | 10/26/1991 | See Source »

...side. Dolores Rozzi, director of the office of federal operations at the EEOC, worked for Thomas for seven years. Through hundreds of meetings together, she says, she never saw him listen to anyone tell a dirty joke, let alone tell one himself. "People thought he was a little uptight and conservative," says Rozzi. "The word was, 'You have to go to Clarence with clean hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Question of Character | 10/21/1991 | See Source »

WHERE CAN YOU find the most uptight, tense, stressed-out student body in America...

Author: By Gavin M. Abrams, | Title: The Real Rat Race | 9/28/1991 | See Source »

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