Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With this week's U.S. release of Do the Right Thing, the furor goes Stateside. Not since the Black Panthers cowed Manhattan's glitterati 20 years ago has there been such a virulent outbreak of radical chic -- or so many political-disease detectives ready to stanch the epidemic. A single issue of the Village Voice ran eight articles on the movie, with opinions running from raves to cries of "fascist" and "racist." A political columnist for New York magazine charged that Lee's film could undermine the New York City mayoral campaign of a black candidate. Everywhere, the film...
...furor over Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses-which many say blasphemes the prophet Mohammed and which she eventually banned--has also helped destablized her regime. problem of Afghan refugees and an ensuing drug trade. And Bhutto has said she hopes to depend on U.S. help with these problems...
...Unavoidably I was going to be a symbol of working parenthood. You cannot minimize [being pregnant with twins on television]. I became a symbol in spite of myself," Pauley says, recounting the furor that surrounded her decision in 1983 to appear on television visibly pregnant...
Wrapped up in the furor surrounding the nomination of former Texas Senator John Tower as Secretary of Defense and the recent allegations of ethics violations involving House Speaker Jim Wright (D-Tx.) and Majority Whip Tony Coelho (D-Ca.), Congress itself is only now beginning to address the drug crisis...
...recent weeks, after public furor over MacFarland at Princeton mounted, the professor said he decided to retire early from his post and also from the English Department's outside committee...