Word: uptightness
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Where to begin? There's Bannister, pseudo-Andie-MacDowell, and her "I'm uptight" uptight health nut husband Ray (Peter Dobson) who dies and must communicate with her by making Fox act like Whoopi Goldberg in "Ghost." There are the people dying, their number inscribed on their foreheads, all at the hands of a flying throw rug. There's the haunted house, its owner, her daughter (Dee Wallace-Stone), and her lover. There's the "real character" of an weird FBI agent (Jeffrey Combs) who, while getting to the bottom of this, has his hair slicked in a horrendous Hitler...
...Jesus Christ nun who heads the Healing Arts Center in Mishawaka, Illinois: "We're moving toward the integration of the East and West, and it's happening through health care." A fan of Chopra's, she sees no conflicts between the new and the old age: "People are so uptight about this kind of thing. We used to call it trust...
...What will you miss the least about Harvard? A "Bell-ringing beef." Anonymous "Shitty, uptight people." Anonymous "The faux political wranglings of students who think they have power." Stacy A. Friedman...
...outrageous as I would," says Williams. "Hard to find someone who does that." Nichols would typically let the pair run loose with improvisations in at least one take per scene. Lane's own favorite came when Albert learns that Armand doesn't want him around to meet the uptight parents of the girl Armand's son wants to marry. Lane went high-flying hysterical, screaming to onlookers at a sidewalk cafe ("I'm a homeless person!"), then fainting dead away. "All the extras on the street applauded," says Lane. "And Mike looked at us and said, 'Well...
...staff's criticism of grade inflation illustrates one of the most annoying facets of the Harvard experience--dealing with uptight, hyper-competitive undergraduates. The reason that some Harvard students seethe about "the mires of grade inflation" is because high achievement by most of the student body robs them of a perverse pleasure that they have grown accustomed to enjoying. That is, many undergraduates cannot feel happy unless they are demonstrating that they are somehow superior to others...