Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were waiting. He told the tower that he would aim instead for Runway 22 (southwest at 220 degrees), which was 6,880 ft. long -- just enough to handle a DC-10 under normal circumstances. When the jet appeared headed toward Runway 22 on a surprisingly level and steady approach, anxious ground observers were elated. Haynes radioed the tower, "I think I'm going to make...
...Knicks are winning in a nail biter, and I have two seats on the floor." If Do the Right Thing is a financial success, Lee will be playing in another league. Future movies will bring bigger budgets, probably accompanied by pressure for more control from the big studios anxious to protect their investments. Independence may be harder to retain. "Then the fights will come," says the director. Spike Lee is ready...
...writes -- slowly. A good day at a recently acquired computer is 400 words. If he produces more, he notes with a laugh, he invariably writes less the following day. On average it takes Naipaul about a year to compose a book. "I'm with it all the time, anxious to get to the end," he says with a hint of dread. "When I'm finished, I do nothing. It takes a week before I even begin to feel tired." To keep in shape, he performs a daily exercise taught to him years ago by a family pundit in Trinidad...
Fundamentalist opinion to the contrary, Lewis was not Satan's satrap. Anxious middle-class parents, who saw him as an emissary from a netherworld that was nearer at hand -- trailer-park America -- were possibly a little closer to the truth. Like Presley, Dean and Brando, he was a figure partially shaped by a popular culture that in the '50s was learning to cater almost exclusively to kids and their need for rebel figures. But there was also an element of discomfiting truth in the message he sent. The thing about the young Jerry Lee was that he was all fecklessness...
...from 1981 to 1983 by taunting him with loud noises. Beverly claimed that employees popped milk cartons, broke beer bottles and even set off fireworks to see his reaction. Helpless in the grip of the disorder, he would throw himself to the floor. Eventually he became so anxious, the judges found, that he could no longer hold a job. The Miller company, which would pay the penalty, plans to appeal the ruling...