Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month-old Cornell University faculty controversy over the competence of the dean of writing there is "a regrettable ruckus," Donald Byker, acting director of Expository Writing at Harvard, said yesterday...
Andre insists that he has transformed the park from "a latrine for dogs" into a place of beauty. As for cost, pound for pound his new work was a steal. The last time Andre stirred such a ruckus was last year, when London's Tate Gallery admitted it had paid $12,000 for one of his creations: 120 bricks, stacked in a rectangle...
...world he left behind so quickly had still not quite recovered from the changes he brought down on it. In England, the punk rockers who are raising such a ruckus, spooking the music business and intimidating their elders, turn themselves out just like the Elvis of the '50s, in tight pants and defensive snarls. Their unadorned, assaultive music tries for the same fierce simplicity Elvis seemed to achieve so effortlessly. Back in Memphis, hysteria prevailed. Guards were posted outside the mausoleum to keep fans and fanatics from laying waste to the burial grounds. There were to be fresh shipments...
...Soap than worried about it. Says an NBC executive: "It's kids'porno: Laverne and Shirley, Three's Company-the end of a trend." CBS President Robert Wussler is rumbling about the possibility that Soap will refuel criticism of prime time programming just when the ruckus over violence is dying down. But the Cyclops eye is not blinking. Says one CBS programmer: "If it works, the whole industry will have a Soap in five months...
...told the New York Times last year she had heard the manuscript contained "a hysterical personal attack on me." Little, Brown, the publisher for both writers, requested the deletion of four passages about Hellman from the Trilling text. When the author refused, the publisher terminated the contract, precipitating a ruckus whose reverberations can still be heard...