Word: furor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nothing, however, can give it the substance. Under all the furor, spontaneous or manufactured, and the high urgency, real or prefabricated just for the premiere, is the film, a frail vessel indeed to bear the fate of mankind. History and distance have not made Stanley Kubrick's 1964 film Dr. Strangelove any less great or-sadly-less relevant, but even a movie as fine as that would have to struggle to stay above the sort of ideological tide surging around The Day After. No one has yet made the case that Dr. Strangelove has been bested, although there...
...furor in Newport over the dilapidation of Mrs. James Jay Coogan's empty mansion on aristocratic Catherine Street turned the spotlight on one of the world's wealthiest recluses: for 25 years Mrs. Coogan, now well into her 80s, has seldom left her Manhattan hotel suite in the daytime, but each night at 9 o'clock she goes down in the freight elevator heavily veiled, drives to her cubbyhole office in a loft building, puts in five hours administering her real-estate fortune (which includes Coogan's Bluff, the Polo Grounds where the Giants play...
...mention those who have been at the receiving end of them. Unabashedly, indeed excessively, partisan in his politics, Watt has been known to distinguish between Democrats and Republicans as "liberals and Americans." He has compared environmentalists to the forces that created Nazism in Germany. Last year Watt provoked a furor of almost international dimensions after he wrote a letter to then Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Moshe Arens. Watt deplored the possibility that "liberals of the Jewish community" might oppose his program for offshore oil drilling. Many American Jewish leaders read that as a veiled threat...
...furor grew, Watt, as usual, was hoping it would all blow over. "He's been hurt by this," said an aide, "but not mortally-at least for now." As Watt likes to put it: "When my liabilities outweigh my strengths, I should go." After his latest blunder, the scales may have tipped. - By George Russell. Reported by Jay Branegan and Caroline Mooney/ Washington
...sickened by the assassination of Benigno Aquino [Sept. 5]. In all the furor over human rights in Afghanistan, Iran, El Salvador and Soviet-bloc countries, the U.S. has consistently overlooked the atrocities committed in the Philippines. Now is the time to take a close look at what is happening there and with whom we are allying ourselves...