Word: dustup
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this dustup, journalists at first followed their gentler impulses. On the evening after the Star leaked its story via faxes to dozens of leading journalists, NBC was the only major network to carry an item on its newscast. At ABC, World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings and executive producer Paul Friedman were more leery of the unbuttressed charges and reluctant to credit another news organization on a topic they too had been pursuing. Says Friedman: "We sat around joking that after all the symposia sponsored by prestigious academic institutions, we still have difficulty coping with what's right and what...
...worldwide reach. Explains Peter Walton, executive producer of the program: "We realized what people want is American English. People were asking, 'Haven't you got anything in American?' " Other BBC broadcasters are doing their best to adopt American-style slang. A budding British John Madden describing a soccer game dustup not long ago told listeners that an injured player was "stretchered" off the field. Next time, try "Boom! He's outta there...
...scandal transfixed Britain throughout the week. In a bruising dustup in Parliament, Neil Kinnock, leader of the opposition Labour Party, called Major "utterly negligent" for failing to take action against B.C.C.I. while serving as Chancellor of the Exchequer in January 1990. Replied an ashen-faced Major, who said he had learned of the full extent of the bank fraud only on June 28: "If you are saying I am a liar, you had better say so bluntly." Robin Leigh-Pemberton, governor of the Bank of England, later affirmed that Major first received details of the scandal in late June...
Still, Feinstein prefers snide references to Wilson as just another boring male pol ("Change is more than exchanging one pinstripe suit for another in Sacramento"). Though sartorial satire by a man about a woman candidate would be regarded as sexist, Feinstein is getting away with it. The latest distracting dustup started two weeks ago, when Feinstein heckled Wilson about his poor Senate attendance record. Go back to Washington to help out in the government budget wrangle, she taunted him, and I'll suspend campaigning. Last week Wilson returned to the capital because of the deficit showdown. Feinstein cheerfully continued campaigning...
...understandable response would be to ignore the whole thing. But ignorance is not an option. The clash, however angry and ominous, is not just the usual dustup between raucous young stars and the professional squares who oppose them. It's not just about dirty words and bad attitude. The battle over pop raunch reflects a crucial fissure in American social and political culture that was born a long generation ago and came of age in the Reagan-Bush...