Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...furor grew after the Miami Herald quoted a remark by new Chief of Staff Howard Baker that when Mrs. Reagan "gets her hackles up, she can be a dragon." A front-page story in the New York Times announced that the First Lady intended to increase her involvement in White House affairs, including the effort to reach an arms-control agreement with the Soviets...
...ceremonial office and von Weizsacker on numerous occasions has commanded the necessary authority to counteract outbursts of hate in his country. This happened most recently after President Reagan's visit to a cemetery for German World War II veterans and SS officers, Bitburg. The visit justifiably caused an international furor, but one which led to a nationalistic reaction among Germans agitated by the attention brought to the Hitler years. In a widely praised and widely publicized speech, the 67-year old statesman took his nation--and his own political party--to task for trying to forget its Nazi past...
...responded to the furor by agreeing to run a disclaimer at the beginning of each night's program reiterating that the drama is fiction. ABC News is considering airing a special segment of its Viewpoint series to provide a forum for both critics and defenders of the show. But the network has vowed not to cave in to pressure to tone down the controversial movie or cancel it. ABC President John Sias told the New York Times last week, "We're going to run that program come rain, blood or horse manure." Or deadlines: the sprawling project, for which more...
...furor over Amerika highlights a persistent TV dilemma. Network programming is frequently derided as bland and mindless, but whenever a provocative show comes along that purveys a controversial point of view, it is assaulted by interest groups on one side or another, often scaring off advertisers and making the network less likely to try other risky ventures. The critics of Amerika, meanwhile, have their own irony to face. The attention they have focused on a program they despise has set the stage for what could be one of TV's highest-rated mini-series since Roots...
After first expressing support for the comrades, the A.N.C. now disavows their tactics. Winnie Mandela, the wife of jailed Black Leader Nelson Mandela, caused a furor last April by declaring, "With our boxes of matches and our necklaces, we shall liberate this country." A.N.C. leaders later told her to stop making such statements, and at the group's 75th anniversary celebration in Lusaka two weeks ago, A.N.C. President Oliver Tambo declared, "Of course we are not in favor of necklacing. We don't like necklacing, but we understand its origins. It originated from the extremes to which people were provoked...