Word: raucousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Française has played in the Paris subways. Still to come are an ambitious new "people's" opera house for the Place de la Bastille, a new ballet school for Marseille and a dance conservatory for Lyon. And, seemingly everywhere, there is Lang himself: listening to the raucous new-wave bands, paging through displays at the annual comic book exhibition at Angoulême, inspecting Grenoble's art museum...
...Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982, enacted by last year's lameduck Congress. Nonetheless, when he asked truckers to return to work last week, Parkhurst appeared unbowed. "We have accomplished a lot, more than we have ever been able to in the past," he declared at a raucous news conference punctuated by shouts of "Sellout!" from heckling truckers...
...Saudis. At the Geneva meeting, Yamani demanded that the Africans raise their prices in order to keep the Saudis from being noncompetitive when they try to sell their less desirable crude. The Africans balked at boosting prices at a time of sluggish demand, and the meeting disintegrated into a raucous round of name-calling. At one point, Yamani reportedly shouted: "I am a man of the desert, and nobody is going to laugh at my beard." That was the Arab equivalent of saying, "Nobody is going to take advantage...
...gaiety of Moscow - is voiced as a giggling endearment to a baby. Yet the essence of the play is conveyed with antic energy and force. Serban adroitly manages a welter of themes: aimless ambition, futile romance, grotesque distortions of honor, loneliness in a crowd. The play becomes the raucous comedy that Chekhov always insisted it was and hurtles exuberantly toward a triumph of optimism over experience. Among a solid cast, including Jeremy Geidt as the pathetic Chebutykin, three performers achieve fresh insight: Alvin Epstein as a hyperkinetic but somewhat dim Vershinin; Cheryl Giannini as a hard, petulant Masha; and Karen...
Malcolm X thought the raucous nature of the Birmingham marchers had signaled the entrance of a new breed of Black into the civil rights movement, turning it into an all Black revolution. Malcolm X was referring to the tendency of King's rearguard demonstrators, and Black spectators along the route of the Birmingham marchers to attack the police by using violence themselves. Malcolm X was more correct in his version of what happened in Birmingham. His sequence is the framework one needs to explain what happened there with respect to white and Black reaction and to establish the casual connection...