Word: brouhaha
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With his landslide victory in the California primary last month, Dukakis clinched the top spot. And he's already chosen his running mate, Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas. So there's not a lot of suspense here, aside from the Jackson-Dukakis brouhaha which seems to have passed...
...brouhaha briefly burst upon the Ann Arbor campus when Bennett's name was bandied about in regards to the vacant college presidency, but University of Michigan and government officials strongly deny he was ever seriously considered...
...then, has Biden become a modern-day Jean Valjean, condemned to suffer permanently for the political equivalent of stealing a loaf of bread? Biden is more than a hapless victim, since his Gatling-gun rhetoric certainly compounded the problem. Still, the Biden brouhaha illustrates the six deadly requirements for a crippling political scandal...
...been shuttling so many free or upgraded passengers to Hawaii that "we didn't have enough seats to sell our paying customers," complained Suzanne Weiss, manager of the airline's Mileage Plus program. But the bonuses have also brought the airlines badly needed brand loyalty, and now the latest brouhaha is causing some of the chagrined carriers to reconsider their new restrictions. Until that happens, expect more fuming from unhappy customers...
...demolished any chance that the mini- series, when it finally reaches the screen, will be judged on its own merits. Which is too bad, because the segments that have been completed (six hours so far) reveal a far more subtle, challenging and skillfully woven drama than the advance brouhaha would suggest. Its political implications aside, Amerika is the sort of project that network TV seldom tries and even more seldom achieves: a thought-provoking epic...