Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...police have steered clear of the ruckus. "Surely there exists a certain polarization between the ashamed dressed and the unashamed nudes!" exclaimed Assistant Lord Mayor Winfried Zehet-meier. "But if there are no indecent actions, nothing can be legally done...
...former Jurist Lord Scarman, would investigate the causes of the violence. Firebrand M.P. Enoch Powell, a Tory turned Ulster Unionist and a longtime opponent of nonwhite immigration to Britain, warned that "you have seen nothing yet." Five M.P.s demanded "a vigorous policy" of subsidized repatriation of nonwhite immigrants. The ruckus spread as far away as New Delhi, where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on an official visit to India, was confronted by demonstrators protesting Britain's new immigration restrictions. A group of 23 pickets was arrested after throwing placards at her limousine...
Small turnouts indicate only that many people are on vacation or resisting passively at home, Leyland says, and she denies media reports that the movement is weaker in other parts of the country. "They (journalists) say it's quiet, that there's no ruckus, no violence. That's only because people are protesting more peacefully...
Reagan still has five Cabinet posts to fill. One prospective appointment provoking a ruckus is that of James Watt as Secretary of the Interior. A Denver attorney, Watt is leading a fight to open up more federal wilderness land to mining and oil drilling in Colorado and Wyoming. Reagan said in Watt's defense last week: "I think he's an environmentalist himself, as I think I am. He is fighting environmental extremists...
Brenton's game attempts to show just what that does mean have been scorned for political superficiality and shortsightedness. But Brenton's presentation is not meant to hold up in Parliament; it is a metaphorical point whose truth is poetic. The ruckus has little to do with such niceties of debate, however. It centers on the generous amounts of sex and violence with which The Romans was staged. Bad enough, for fainthearts in the audience, that the first act contains a lynching, a throat cutting and assorted acts of bloody roughhouse. It also features three Celts bounding around...