Word: hubbub
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...hubbub began last fall, when faculty members complained they were inadequately consulted by the University's task force on benefits. It continued in February, when Coolidge Professor of History David S. Landes unexpectedly said communication is poor and relations are strained between the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and the central administration...
...complicate--mainly by arbitrarily withholding vital information--what is, in its emotional essence, a not very complicated matter. But the sensible formality of Taylor Hackford's direction has the effect of cooling the film's narrative frenzies and helping the actors dig some simple, truthful stuff out of the hubbub. There is something great souled in Bates' work, which is at once sweet and fierce, hesitant and determined. She seems always to be surprising herself with her actions, brushing aside the calculations of the story with the sheer force of her humanity...
Like Chatelle, he blamed Walsh for starting the hubbub. "I find it highly suspect that a councillor awaiting a trial on 41 counts suddenly finds it upon himself to be the guardian of public morals on the eve of his sentencing," he said...
...this [hubbub] is typical for big street scenes," key grip Ault said, eating Chinese food brought to him by the equally mysterious "best...
...hubbub over Roberts almost overshadowed the main event, the confirmation that the top post will pass in July from Max Frankel, 64, to Lelyveld, 57. The transition will mark a change in style -- Frankel is courtly and professorial, Lelyveld shy yet blunt -- but not necessarily in substance. Both men are Ivy Leaguers and Pulitzer prizewinners (Frankel for covering Richard Nixon's trip to China, Lelyveld for a book about South Africa) who have spent their adult life at the Times. Both reflect a newsroom esprit de corps that approaches religious fervor. Both are political liberals who preach the importance...