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Despite Gigli's fortissimo reception, New Yorkers still remembered the hullabaloo when he failed to take a salary cut during the Depression as other Met stars did. In 1939, back in Mussolini's Italy, he denounced the Met as decadent, predicted "something like a civil war" in the U.S. (he later denied everything...
When the "soul ship" of Pharaoh Cheops was found last year, buried at the foot of his mighty pyramid, the find was announced to the world with the greatest possible hullabaloo. This week, at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, British Egyptologist Walter Bryan Emery quietly told about finding a similar ship at least 400 years older. It dates from the First Dynasty, 5,000 years ago, when civilization was new in the valley of the Nile...
...Authority was wrong: the very suggestion stirred up a hullabaloo. The Forest of Dean Miners (who mine no coal) met in council to resist any atomic invasion of their ancient diggings. Nature lovers deployed behind them, fearful of what might happen to the birds and beasts of the forest. Titled voices were raised in majestic wrath...
...readied the full treatment for its imminent guests, the touring Shah of Iran and his luscious Queen Soraya. The protocol section of the U.S. State Department was also concerned: it wanted to restrain the overzealous hotel from whipping up the Shah's visit into a lather of commercialized hullabaloo. The Sans Souci insouciantly proceeded to run a red carpet from its lobby to the street, redecorate a 16-room wing as the imperial suite, paint the Shah's coat of arms on every royal door in sight. Hardheaded U.S. Marine Corps Commandant Lemuel Shepherd Jr. declined the hotel...
...efforts will be made on a friend-to-friend basis and will involve as little hullabaloo as possible," Richard Solomon, associate professor of Social Psychology said yesterday. "So many people in the department and outside have expressed interest that a formal committee and circular letter seemed unnecessary...