Word: uptightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sworn to stamp out. But to Leo's family, Bob is the one thing Leo is not. He is available. For stupid fun. For off-the-wall counseling. For generally shaking things up. Murray, with his curious blend of pathos and aggressiveness, is terrific, and so is an acutely uptight Dreyfuss, never once copping a plea for our sympathy. At the end What About Bob? skids into silliness, but not before Frank Oz proves that he's a director with just the mean sense of humor these bland times desperately need...
...planning meetings had been broadcast live. Some of us noticed an unusual number of fresh coiffures and telegenic neckties, but, generally, what the viewers saw was remarkably close to the routine atmosphere of a normal work-week. Early in the week our journalists were probably all a little uptight, unwilling to risk spilling a favorite story idea or sounding less than omniscient. A few of our key decisions had to take place off-camera, but by the end of the week many staff members were becoming quite casual. Without waiting for the reviews, I think our debut in immersion video...
Jeeez, Talk About Uptight--Candidates for the presidency of Harvard can be a little uptight about publicity. Just ask Thomas Ehrlich, president of Indiana University and reportedly a candidate for Harvard's top post. When a Crimson reporter asked his office to send a photograph and some biographical information for an upcoming story, the office refused to send anything...
...word "anal" gratuitously to describe people whom, at a normal school, would be described as "uptight." Unlike the typical Harvard student, I do not feel the need to demonstrate a facile knowledge of Freudian psychoanalytic theory at every possible opportunity by making a disturbingly graphic comparison between someone's behavior and a bodily orifice...
Most visitors to Mapplethorpe's controversial "The Perfect Moment" arrive eager to discover for themselves exactly what sort of art manages to get Jesse Helms so uptight. In this instance, they usually leave with the perception that it does not take much. Helms' charges that the pictures are pornographic can only reflect his artistic ignorance and socially illiteracy...