Word: ado
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program, whose co-impresario is Rubin's wife Mimi Leonard, offers to those willing to shell out $32 to $60 per ticket not merely the galaxy of stars (Dick Gregory and Buckminster Fuller too) but the promise that all participants will learn, during the 14½-hour much-ado, "everything you will ever need to know about how to be healthy and loving...
Simon is determined not to let the luster of the prize change his life. On entering his first class the day after the Nobel announcement, Simon was greeted with a standing ovation from his jubilant students. He smiled, thanked them, and without further ado went into his lecture on cognitive psychology...
...pink fingernails fluttering near pale skin as her face crumples with joy and disbelief. The weepy, departing queen struggles to fix the crown on her successor's head. As a recorded chorus serenades, "She's a miracle, she could be Miss America. . . the one that we ado-o-o-re," the winner grips her scepter and hurtles toward the runway at the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium...
...skeptical youth: "If there is no money in there, why are all these police guarding the house?" By this time, Sheehan had fled to a convent for safety. It took police a full day of persuasion, plus 19 arrests, to convince the crowd that the whole situation was much ado about nothing...
Although it has had its strong detractors over the years, Shakespeare's Twelfth Night is for many the finest comedy in our language. It was the climax of a series of three romantic comedies written in quick succession; Shakespeare learned much from the experience of writing the inferior Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It, and was able to approach perfection in Twelfth Night. Having done so, he turned away from the genre to deal with darker or tragic matters...