Word: brouhaha
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This typical French family is scarcely prepared for the brouhaha and hurluberlu that follow Pippin's elevation to the throne. There is the grand opening of the "Versailles-Hilton" hotel; the Folies-Bergere holds a contest for the official post of "King's Mistress"; and visiting royalty floods the capital ("Ava Gardner and H.S.H. Kelly are in residence"). Two hundred nobles come out of the woodwork and descend on Versailles, all set to eat Pippin out of house and palace. His daughter's American suitor proposes to merchandise the impoverished monarchy ("The Dukedom of Dallas...
...Something between a hassle and a brouhaha, or maybe a shenanigan...
...another new work was disastrously pretentious, a complex, often embarrassing brouhaha of heavy symbolism, mythology and sex. It told the story of Greek mythology's Tiresias, who begins as a man, is transformed into a woman, then back again. Inexplicable characters dashed in and out of the ballet, including copulating snakes and a tiny girl equipped with brass breastplates, whose face is blue-black on one side, chalk-white on the other. The production's one real merit: the sensuous dancing of dark-haired Violetta Elvin as Tiresias the Woman, and especially the moment when her partner lifts...
After that, the festival's sponsors chose to drop Blackboard from the program. But MGM's Dore Schary raged: "What Ambassador Luce has done represents flagrant political censorship." Italy's Communists, of course, agreed, and, in the ensuing verbal brouhaha, sight was lost of the fact that no censorship had been imposed by either the Italian or U.S. governments. All that had happened was that Europeans had been informed that not all Americans are content to receive their mail addressed to "Tobacco Road...
Probably 10,000 TIME readers have written you concerning the sentence: "The brouhaha with Stevens hurt McCarthy as well as the party . . ." What does "brouhaha" mean? The word appears in no dictionary I have consulted-and is unknown to researchers at local libraries...