Word: brouhaha
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WITH THE GREAT Amerika brouhaha exploding over our heads weeks before the show itself begins, the American media will once again don hairshirts and bewail either the excess or absence of the proper political sensitivities in our art forms. Both contentions are nonsense, as politics is almost always irrelevant to the American public's perception of the arts...
Smith Barney, another blue-chip investment firm, started its own brouhaha by suing Goodyear Tire and Rubber and Sir James Goldsmith. To stop a takeover bid by Goldsmith last month, Goodyear agreed to buy back the raider's 12.6 million shares of the company for $52.50 apiece, nearly a 22% premium over their market value of $43. Such buyouts at a premium not available to other shareholders are known as greenmail...
...ALAS, AS it is now being reviewed, the book was obviously published. What, then, is this brouhaha about...
...burger brouhaha started in March, when Jason Hallman, 15, of Bessemer, Ala., became the first person in his state to spot Herb in a Burger King store. The bespectacled actor was on a nationwide tour of Burger King outlets as part of a $40 million promotional campaign. The young man thought he had won a $5,000 prize, but Burger King, upon learning his age, denied him the jackpot and gave it to his friend David Brown, 16, who was with Jason that day. Reason: the rules of the contest, posted in all Burger King stores, said that winners...
Seven years later, Southern remains uneasy in talking about the brouhaha surrounding her departure as chairman. But, she says, the story had a "positive ending...