Word: hubbub
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...principal reason seems to rest on precedent. The Fagles translation of Homer's Iliad, published by Viking in 1990 to considerably less hubbub than that heralding the upcoming Odyssey, went on to exceed all commercial expectations by selling 22,000 copies in hardback; the paperback version, now in its eighth printing, has moved 140,000 copies. And an abridged audiotape of the Iliad read by Derek Jacobi surprised Penguin Audiobooks by selling 35,000 copies...
Washington's single-minded obsession with Saddam has provoked some allies to think about a rift in the making potentially graver than the latest hubbub. Even in Kuwait, where eagerness to unseat Saddam runs high, officials wonder if the U.S. is dangerously ignoring the region's other and perhaps greater threat: Iran. "Seventy percent of Kuwaitis just want to get rid of Saddam," says Mohammed al-Qadiri, a Kuwaiti businessman and former government official. "But the rest worry that if he goes, Iran will step in, and that, my friend, is real trouble." Some of Kuwait's top leaders have...
Besides, judging by the hubbub over the Kasparov match, even if computers could pass the test, debate would still rage over whether they think. No one doubted Deep Blue's chess skills, but many doubted whether it is a thinking machine. It uses "brute force"--zillions of trivial calculations, rather than a few strokes of strategic Big Think. ("You don't invite forklifts to weight-lifting competitions," an organizer of exclusively human chess tournaments said about the idea of man-vs.-machine matches.) On the other hand, there are chess programs that work somewhat like humans. They size...
...hubbub now? Students theoretically have been able to snarf guest meals off unsuspecting students' lost ID cards ever since the ID card dining system came into place...
...radio news stations, with their hours of analysis and discussion that eventually, unfortunately, faded into blather. And the hubbub hadn't died by morning, when the New York Times ran 10 separate stories on the verdict and the Boston Globe devoted an entire pullout section to it, or by yesterday, when the jurors' explanations dominated front pages across the country...