Word: uptightness
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Number two Robin Lothrop said, "We were a little uptight before the race because B.U. had a better time than us in our heats by 15 seconds. We rowed a solid race and the set-up was great...
...Thomas Griffith's Essay, "Corruption in the U.S." [Dec. 31], brings to mind a Latin phrase that seems to explain why many of us are uptight about the recent White House pursuits: Corruptio optimi pessima -the corruption of the best is the worst...
Nervous and Uptight. Hohimer's brother Harold, 38, corroborated Rugendorf s claim when he got in touch with Petacque four weeks ago to describe a meeting with a "real nervous and uptight" Hohimer the day after the murder. "He said he had to 'off a girl," Harold told the reporter. "I asked him why he had to do someone in, and he said it was because the girl made a lot of noise and they got in a fight. I asked him, 'What score are you talking about?' and he said...
Both correspondents found that the many East Germans they interviewed outside Berlin were friendlier-and far more talkative-than the uptight "press officers" in the capital. "Sometimes it was difficult to break away from their exemplary hospitality," says Nelan, who endured a four-hour tour of an alloy steel mill. Rademaekers met with more warmth than he had bargained for. "A heat wave was sweeping across East Germany," he complains, "and every window seemed locked up for the winter...
Belle du Jour. directed by Luis Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve. An uptight bourgeois Parisian housewife acts out her prostitution fantasies. Bunuel jumbles the real and the fake, the conscious and unconscious, the storybook and dream in a powerful satire-study of psychological repression and the perversions it breeds. Harvard Square...