Word: uptightness
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...Beijing, the security forces behave according to the seasons and the calendar. Every spring, for example, they get very, very uptight. That's the time of year preceding the annual meeting of what is often described as China's legislature, the National People's Congress. As a result, dissidents are harassed and detained and hundreds of desperate petitioners - people who have come to the capital to seek redress for an unresolved injustice - are rounded up and forcibly sent back to their home provinces...
...Uptight and upset: here are two scenes from the last World Cup, in 2003. Three weeks out, the All Blacks held an open training session in Nelson, atop New Zealand's South Island. As the players turned it on for the 5,000 spectators, TIME's reporter asked squad official Matt McIlraith for a brief interview with the coach, John Mitchell, who was overseeing practice the way a chess master examines the board. While he didn't quite scoff, McIlraith made it clear there was precisely zero chance of the request being granted. Mitchell wasn't feeding the chooks anymore...
...self-esteem problems; indeed, that is their problem. The only star who simmers with comic angst is Stiller. He's the put-upon loser, a jocular Job, in films like There's Something About Mary and Night at the Museum, when he's not taking roles as the pompous, uptight bad guy (in, say, Dodgeball) or the preening oaf, as in the well-nigh-immortal Zoolander. The moneymen love Stiller too, because he's the rare comic star with international box-office clout...
...primal scream is a symbol of more than just tradition. It seems fitting that such a salient symbol of Harvard tradition should be comprised of several hundred nude Ivory Tower dwellers who, eager to escape their daily, uptight, and proper image, throw off the repression with their clothes and take to the Yard...
...this subtly shifts the focus away from the children and their nanny (a spunky, Americanized Mary played by newcomer Ashley Brown) and to the adults. When the uptight Mr. Banks begins to panic that he may lose his job at the bank, there's real pain and poignancy as his crusty shell starts to crumble. (Mrs. Banks: "If you have problems, I want to share them." Mr. Banks: "Believe me, you will.") This Mary becomes a show less about children than about the loss of childhood--and about how adults learn to be parents. Which is just what...