Word: ruckus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TRAVELS (PBS, debuting Oct. 2, 8 p.m. on most stations). Worn out from the Days of Rage ruckus, PBS returns to more placid pleasures. This twelve-part series will follow different travelers on unusual journeys around the globe...
Mikhail Gorbachev needs this ruckus about as much as Custer needed more Indians. The Soviet President is already trying to cope with a sour national mood that is turning bitter amid steadily worsening shortages of meat, sugar, butter, salt, matches, soap and even warm winter clothing. Now tea, a beverage the Soviets consume in vast quantities, has suddenly disappeared from store shelves. Said a woman standing in line for lemons in Moscow: "They talk about the years of stagnation ((Gorbachev's term for the Brezhnev era)), but at least while we stagnated...
...Peter Dunne's fictional Chicago bartender)) sometimes didn't know what he was talking about. This Supreme Court must not even read the newspapers." Busby plans to monitor the July 4th festivities across the nation. If the flag burners come out in force, there could be quite a political ruckus and possibly a constitutional amendment in less time than it takes to sing The Star-Spangled Banner...
...star aborning. In that scene from Scandal, a just opened cinema chronicle of Britain's Profumo- Keeler scandal of the early '60s, Gift is doing onscreen the same sort of number he's been running on the music scene: making a little room for himself and raising a major ruckus...
Lesbian couples now appear at Radcliffe's formal Senior Soiree, and gays routinely dance together at Harvard events. That can sometimes lead to friction. In February a ruckus broke out when a gay student asked the younger brother of a straight student to dance. Gay students soon after staged a "kiss-in" to protest alleged harassment. Says Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian co-chair Kelly Dermody: "This year was wild...