Word: furor
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gomes finds himself in the middle of a very public furor over the most private aspects of his life. He placed himself squarely in the line of fire last November when he stood on the steps of Memorial Church and told a cheering crowd, "I am a Christian who happens as well to be gay." The extraordinary gesture was prompted by a special 56-page issue of a conservative student magazine called Peninsula, devoted to denouncing homosexuality as destructive for individuals and society. The magazine backed up its stand in part by citing Jewish, Christian and Muslim scriptures. Gomes says...
...fact that Clinton's camp has been striving for weeks to undermine Tsongas' credibility is testimony to the way the ostensibly cool Clinton is suffering from the pressure of the campaign. The furor over his alleged romance with Gennifer Flowers and his draft status during the Vietnam War nearly sank Clinton's candidacy. Though he staged a gutsy comeback, neither his campaign nor his image has fully recovered from the trauma. Says his campaign manager, David Wilhelm: "Because of what happened to us, we lost for the time being the aura of the serious, thoughtful candidate...
...success is explained not just by the crass style and posturing that marks a winning politician. Clinton has considerable substance as well. His ability to address a crowd with all the down-home furor of Tom Harkin's "Bullshit!" speechifying and yet all the technocratic details of Mike Dukakis' white papers make him not just a good policy driver but a good policy maker. Clearly, Clinton would be the best president...
...plight of a pregnant 14-year-old, allegedly molested and raped by her best friend's father, stirred an international furor when Irish authorities forbade her to seek an abortion abroad. Last week the Irish Supreme Court overturned a High Court ruling that had prevented her from traveling to Britain to escape Ireland's near absolute prohibition on abortion. The girl's circumstance -- and her reported threat to kill herself if forced to bear the child -- had pitched Prime Minister Albert Reynolds headlong into a no-win political crisis within a week of taking office. He therefore greeted last week...
...under fire for the brutal treatment of suspects in their custody. The videotaped beating of motorist Rodney King by four Los Angeles cops last year threw a spotlight on the use of excessive force by police. The number of reports continues to remain high across the country after the furor that followed that attack. Female officers have been conspicuously absent from these charges: the independent Christopher commission, which investigated the L.A.P.D. in the aftermath of the King beating, found that the 120 officers with the most use- of-force reports were all men. Civilian complaints against women are also consistently...