Word: uptightness
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...might be a gruff old gent with a streak of eccentricity and a taste for adventure, while the other is younger, more level-headed and a bit uptight. Or if one is an overenthusiastic amateur, the other is a world-weary pro with a hard veneer of cynicism. They seem to bicker constantly, these mismatched TV couples, yet they share a grudging respect and affection--sometimes even a wedding ring. They can be found all over the prime-time dial these days, their names often linked by racy ampersands: Simon & Simon, Hardcastle & McCormick, Kate & Allie, Cagney & Lacey, MacGruder & Loud...
McCormack's book emphasizes that businessmen must be able to "read" people, to find out if they are secure or uptight, honest or treacherous. McCormack says that a person reveals a lot in the way he treats a waiter at a business lunch, decorates his office or even plays a round of golf. Look out for someone who thinks that any putt of 6 ft. or less is a "gimme...
...form he tried everything and anything. He trained less. He consulted a psychiatrist. Now a born-again Christian, he sought help in prayer. His wife Molly tried to get him to do "a little mellowing." But nothing seemed to help. Recalls Salazar: "I was just real uptight for a real long time, not just about running, but my daily life...
Often when a group is under a lot of pressure they band together as a sense of shared experience and camaraderie develops. That didn't happen last summer. Sometimes we would sit around and commiserate, but we were all too uptight and before too long we had to go back to the library to study. And in the summer studying is damn hard...
...wait. What about uptight Aurora and that raffish former astronaut, Garrett Breedlove (Jack Nicholson, giving a joyously comic display of just the kind of wrong stuff that appalls and attracts her)? Merely thinking over the possibilities he presents takes some comical time. He has been living next door to Aurora for ten years before she hints that she might entertain a luncheon invitation from him. Five years later she actually accepts it. Thereupon a woman who once told an admirer not to worship her unless she deserved it plunges giddily into a relationship with a man she knows suffers that...