Word: furor
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...Pope's PR Machinery Broke Down If it was so easy to foresee that Benedict's remarks about Islam would set off a furor, why didn't the Vatican anticipate...
...recently published a book entitled Ahmadinejad: Miracle of the Third Millennium, whose cover features the president against a backdrop of a flash of light amidst a cloudy sky. Moderates were incensed at the attack on Khatami, and lashed back, calling Mrs. Rajabi rude, profane, and irrelevant. The furor has led newspapers and dominated debate here all week, from policy circles to dinner tables...
...political fallout has been bad for the president and especially another spokesman Gholam Hossein Elham, who had proposed before the furor that those who insult the government be "dealt with" legally. At his last press conference, reporters grilled Elham on the freedom of speech, and whether the government only reserved the right for its supporters. But the scandal has been titillating for thousands of Iranian women, myself included, who want to know more about the women behind the men running the country. Politicians shouldn't be judged by their personal lives, but if the president or his closest advisors were...
...moved up to Newburgh and, when told a home he wanted to build would cost $1,000, speed-wrote I, the Jury. The hardback version, published by E.P. Dutton, sold OK, nothing special, about 20,000 copies. But when issued in paperback in late 1948, the book stoked a furor. (The year's other literary sensation that year was Spillane's polar opposite, the lounge kitten Truman Capote...
...solemn; no pubic parts go public. Yet this was the feature that got Eros hauled into court. Several commentators wondered at the time, and I do now, whether the essay would have been deemed so objectionable if the two people had been of the same color - and whether the furor was as much a matter of politics as of propriety, since it was published at the exact time of the Civil Rights demonstrations, and racist violence, in the South...