Word: uptightness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...letter to my brother when Ron was a teenager fascinated me. Within families, each individual relationship has its own fingerprint and, like a fingerprint, is unique. I got to see in this letter how my father spoke to his son, a male-to-male moment. He used words like uptight and cop out, which he never used with me. It's as if he were looking ahead, past the need to be a disciplinarian, to a future when he and Ron could have the camaraderie of two guys hanging...
Some TV shows get under your skin with lovable characters or subtle writing. Nip/Tuck (FX, Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.) uses a scalpel and liposuction hose. Christian Troy (Julian McMahon) and Sean MacNamara (Dylan Walsh) are wealthy Miami plastic surgeons--the former a seductive bad boy, the latter moral but uptight--and this subtle-as-an-implant drama shies away from neither their work's ethical implications nor its grossness. (Don't fix a snack before watching them carve up a patient's face like a radish rosette.) FX aspires to be the poor...
...what there is a shortage of is unabashed feminism. Bold, in-your-face tactics were successful for the Living Wage Campaign, but women risk being labelled whiny and uptight when they employ them. With every step, feminists feel compelled to consider their image, which can slow down their momentum...
...wondering), jumps in to disagree. “With relationships you cannot be too open immediately with Americans—people get offended so easily here.” And there was a brief moment of international tranquility as heads around the table nodded in unison. Those Americans, very uptight...
...gave up, not having made one sale, got one rude remark or seen one woman in her underwear. Lanza told me I was a bit "uptight" and shouldn't "walk like a robot." I was starting to rethink my thesis about the salespeople being nicer than the customers...