Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hubbub began last week with an unusual announcement. According to Georgina Dufoix, France's Minister of Social Affairs, an important discovery had been made that offered "reasonable hope" in the treatment of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. At a jam-packed press conference later the same day, three scientists from Laennec Hospital in Paris reported that they had found a drug treatment that produced "a spectacular biological response" in AIDS patients. Such a response, said Dr. Philippe Even, who headed the team, "has never been observed before." The name of this magical potion was unexpectedly familiar: cyclosporine...
Hidden beneath this hubbub is a new-fashioned love story, set in a remote place and 85 years ago: boy meets girl; boy, girl and events all conspire to prove that boy is a fool. Still, the message of Nights at the Circus seems the least of its attractions. Carter punctuates her story with arresting images. There is the carriage horse in London that blows "a plume of oats over the nosebag." A box of fin-de-siecle chocolates bears a top layer of "chirruping papers." What becomes of Fevvers and Walser, star-crossed lovers at the hinge...
...bowling with your buddies?" Royko continued with a more pointed observation: "Nobody ever asks us about our needs, our frustrations . . . It's always, 'Madam, do you have your quota of orgasms?' " One putative expert on that subject, Cosmopolitan Editor Helen Gurley Brown, had her own reaction to the hubbub. Hurried, "lackluster" sex is rotten for everybody, she concluded, while good sex is "pretty terrific"-- second only, in her experienced opinion, to good food...
...podium, will respond to the same eight questions. Reagan and Mondale will get three chances to address each topic, initially with a 2½-min. answer, then with a 1-min. follow-up and rebuttal. As Mondale wished, the second presidential debate is scheduled to come after the diversionary hubbub of the World Series, and the encounters will last 90 min. apiece. Each camp is gloating over a minor tactical triumph. The first debate will be on the same night as a nationwide Mondale fund-raising effort in more than 13,000 households; the second is scheduled to be televised...
...hubbub may be only curiosity-seeking, but it contrasts sharply with the lack of spirit that greets Mondale on the road. When the two travel together as they did last week, Ferraro usually speaks first. When Mondale comes to the podium, the crowd often starts to thin...