Word: uptightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Playing in the international soccer championship, partying in the streets, putting old grudges to rest? Yes, outcast and uptight Iran is changing. Slowly, for sure, but certainly faster than anyone could have imagined just one year ago. Since the surprise 1997 election of Mohammed Khatami, who in Iranian terms is a moderate, a fierce internal battle has begun, with the stakes being the future of the mullah-led theocracy...
...very picture of elfin delicacy, hardly the "biker chick" symbol for gay rights that she figures her detractors expect. Having started in show biz at age 12, she marvels that anyone would question her acting ability now--and for a fairly simple role in which she plays an uptight New York editor who falls for Ford's pilot and general layabout. "I am an actress. I play a role. That's my job," she protests. "If I'm good, you shouldn't think about what you've read in the papers...
Behind all of Phil Hartman's characters lurked the same guy: uptight, inflated, slightly annoyed, but just self-aware enough to be in on the joke. In his personal life too, the longtime cast member of Saturday Night Live and NewsRadio seemed to be one of the few who appreciated the humor of celebrity, keeping his life in balance and low-key: a home in the unglamorous San Fernando Valley, a position as honorary sheriff in his town and a steady income from his TV show, small movie roles and voice-overs. So what happened early last Thursday morning...
...find yourself stuck in some dingy hostel late in an Australian night miserably pounding out paragraphs about stultifying historical museums and bad restaurants, in a desperate attempt to meet deadline--stop. Sit back for a moment and rethink why you feel enslaved to a bunch of uptight Harvard kids trapped in a Cambridge office thousands of miles away, when Guatemala awaits; ask yourself again why you wanted to go to India or Ireland in the first place. Go for a beer, go to bed, go do anything rather than cutting and pasting your fun away, because you're supposed...
...four formals offered open (if you'relegal) bars, and bartenders were kept busy earningtheir keep. For some students, alcohol at Houseformals was a welcome relief from Harvard'sgenerally uptight consumption policy...