Word: ruckuses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Randy Travis has come a long way by respecting country music's traditions. Other acts out there, though, are raising a ruckus by tangling up those roots with all sorts of other music. Six signposts for this new country mile: Rodney Crowell, Steve Earle, the O'Kanes, Nanci Griffith, K.T. Oslin and Lyle Lovett...
Since 1917, the British mail service has bolstered revenues by selling stamp space. But Slennett's slogan has raised a ruckus and has prompted the National Secular Society, which claims that about 26% of Britons are atheist or agnostic, to retaliate in kind. It is stamping its envelopes with the words JESUS IS A MYTH...
...Fair enough, but the whale meat produced will turn up at restaurants in Japan. And that, says Commerce Department Spokesman Brian Gorman, "gives rise to concerns that this may be a thinly veiled commercial hunt." The Japanese people cannot understand why killing an unendangered species should cause such a ruckus. "Americans eat beef," they say. "Why can't we eat whale...
...election, 10,000 more than required to put the issue on ballots. But when the letter backfired, leading to more recall signatures, Mecham claimed he had never seen it; a machine had been used to sign his name. Bill Long, chairman of Mecham's campaign finance committee, dismissed the ruckus, noting that the words were just "standard conservative rhetoric...
...Grooms' exuberance there is no doubt. Not for nothing does he favor the rowdy epithet ruckus in collectively naming his pieces: Ruckus Manhattan, Ruckus Rodeo. His tableaux fairly burst with riotous energy. In them, Jean Dubuffet's idea of making an art raw enough to stand up to the chaos of the street comes home to roost. Every Grooms surface pullulates with caricatural figures, each impacted with manic cartoony verve, rendered as layered plywood cutouts, as silhouettes, as stuffed dolls, as shadows. The detail is never hard to read, and one does not get lost in it, because Grooms sticks...