Word: uptightness
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Born. To Dionne Warwick, 25, singer with honey deep down in her Soul (Alfie; Promises, Promises); and Bill Elliott, 31, aspiring movie actor (Uptight, On a Clear Day): their first child, a boy; in Newark...
...some reason, the New Leftists were not charmed. Leaders like Tom Hayden continued to talk owlishly of "imperialism" and "cooptation" ("I thought he said copulation" deadpans Abbie.) So the hoped-for meeting of political hotheads and acidheads failed. To the yippies, the directors of S.D.S. appeared grim, uptight, overly prone to meting out violence...
...plays an upright, uptight Los Angeles lawyer named Harold Fine with a surfeit of standard comic woes: asthma, a meaningless job, a possessive fiancée, a Jewish mother. One sunny day a psychedelicate girl (Leigh Taylor-Young) bakes him a bunch of groovy brownies from an Alice B. Toklas Cook Book recipe that specifies a few pinches of hashish. Harold promptly blows his mind and his job, puts on a hippie face and runs off with the girl. But as his hair grows down to his shoulders his troubles run up to his ears. Mama kvetches on the phone...
Guards barred from the fort two-thirds of the thirty members of the Marsh Chapel community who showed up to see the trial. A military spokesman cited a limited seating capacity as the reason. One would-be spectator said, "They're really uptight about us. I guess they're afraid we might actually talk to some of the other G.I.s on the base...
...they explode. The experience of Sausalito, a small city across the bay from San Francisco, offers suggestions. Once a month the entire police department of 29 men joins Psychiatrist Edward Shev for group-therapy discussions about tension, hippies, homosexuals, Negroes, peaceniks and anything else likely to bring the police uptight. Instead of lashing out, the Sausalito cop is now apt to ask coolly: "What do you want to go and provoke me for?" Significantly, no one has lodged a complaint against Sausalito police in two years. Their hostilities under control, the men are also freer to focus on serious crimes...