We reminisced about the publicity tours and the names we used to give them, including, in the days before mobile phones, the Little Anxious Faces tour, when a packed schedule meant we arrived just in time for each event.
Watson, who still lives in Huntington Beach, along with the rest of his band, is anxious to tour for a number of reasons.
When their daughter, whom they call Youjing, was about to start kindergarten in 1998, the couple, like many anxious New York parents, toured at least a dozen public and private schools, some just steps away from their home at Union Square.
These aspiring MOFs train for months; they practice the dreaded spun-sugar sculpture with the kind of anxious determination that grips Tour de France cyclists before L'Alpe d'Huez.
I was anxious to take a tour.
Was he anxious, then, about the Fly tour?
According to AN Wilson in the FT, Inferno reads less like a novel than a "treatment" for a thriller film … There is a great deal of scientific gobbledegook about 'germ-line manipulation'; and there is also some tourist-level art history … Brown writes like a tour guide, ever anxious to stress the fame of the places and art treasures we glimpse along the way".
Her mood lighter, she acknowledged that the tour had made her anxious.
STEVE ALMOND, an essayist and author of short fiction, leads readers of the New York Times on a bracing guided tour of his own anxious liberal mind.
The PGA Tour was amongst those anxious to have Spieth as part of the Olympic scene and made strong representations to that end.
