Word: furore
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Almost lost in the furor was the play itself, an unflaggingly witty and often moving slice of life among the young, hip and artsy in Calgary, Canada. A gay painter (Michael J. Blankenship), blocked in his work, tries to jolt himself by taking a job as a waiter. To help the young couple who own the restaurant, he induces his closest female friend, a beguilingly bitchy columnist, to tout it in print. The place thrives. So does passion between the painter and the young husband (Damian Baldet, a conservatory student giving a captivating and confidently professional performance...
Hall of Fame pitcher's alleged anti-Semitic remarks cause furor...
...cover story ((THE WHITE HOUSE, March 21)) on the travails of Hillary Rodham Clinton unfair? At least 70 readers support her. "Why are you endorsing this witch-hunt?" asks Clara Beard of Los Angeles, who, like many, suspects the furor over Whitewater is "a ploy to divert attention from much needed health-care legislation." Others agree with Huguet Pameijer of Simsbury, Connecticut, who thinks "the current bash fest" stems from the perception that the First Lady is "too accomplished, too powerful, too darn inexcusably uppity." But some 50 readers have harsh words for Hillary. While the milder critics deem...
...furor over ethics has some Clintonites treading very lightly. Health and Human Services head DONNA SHALALA wanted to throw a routine book party for her friend Madeleine Kunin, deputy secretary of Education, who's published her memoirs. Even though the do was to be held at a friend's house, Shalala got clearance from an HHS ethics officer, sternly forbade book-selling at the party, wrote the invitation herself and stood in line at Kinko's for copies. All this to thwart any criticism that either Shalala or Kunin were using their connections for gain...
...controversial sentencing bill known as "three strikes, you're out" was signed into law by California Governor Pete Wilson. Enacted in the wake of a national furor over the kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas, allegedly by a parolee, the measure would lock up third-time violent felons for life without parole...