Word: priss
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...spite of, or maybe because of the multiple rationales that students at Harvard might have for getting dressed up, I couldn't shake the feeling that I was being kind of a priss for getting all dolled up on Tuesday...
...playpen and scope out the great wide world) while treating the grownup figures with the same genial ribbing the kids get. Tommy the explorer and Chuckie, his friend with the orange shock top and a chronically fretful nature, are attractive opposites; three-year-old Angelica is a finely drawn priss. The animation is distinctive and supple, suggesting Max Fleischer and the Modernist Zagreb school. Who thought to give the kids' heads the shape and apparent consistency of grapefruit? Who unleashed the hyperkinetic floor-level kidcam? Someone with a smart sense of design...
...Dragnet-like TV show and is becoming a celebrity in his own right; Bud White (Australian actor Russell Crowe), who's a sweet, plodding sort of guy unless someone visits violence on women, which turns him into a raging brute; and Ed Exley (Guy Pearce, another Aussie), the departmental priss and spoilsport, thoroughly despised by everyone, as moral centers of amoral enterprises should be--until they turn out to have been right all along...
...went on Springer's show with several other family members. "We shouldn't have gone on. I got upset on that show. [Afterward] my mother didn't speak to my brother for a long time." Still, she wants to do more: "I like to get out there and priss." Michelle Van Buren, 31, of Olivette, Missouri, went on Geraldo and talked about men who lie and cheat. She admits that the talk shows "exploit people," but she doesn't much care. "I've always been a homebody," she says. "I never wanted to talk. But it's like I broke...
...Rocca) is the clear stand-out among Denuar's daughters. Rocca makes his character something more than a Jewish-American princess with a Snuffleupagus physique-he makes the character an audience favorite. Eric Morris's Maura Listic is a cross between Katherine Hepburn and a fireplug, a sawed-off priss with a delightful upper-crust twang...