Word: stirred
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Peninsula has long been permeated by a kind of agitprop culture. They're a marginal group at Harvard, and they can only get attention if they create a stir. Certainly, it's in bad taste to joke about enemies lists and firing squads. But as the line "making a list and checking it twice" evokes images of jolly St. Nick, not of belligerent Benito, I think we're justified in assuming that Peninsula's goal was not really to inspire all good men to unbind their faces. Peninsula well deserves the contempt this latest stunt has brought them...
That the latter, in the case of Bound, is between lesbians--a gangster's moll named Violet (Jennifer Tilly) and Corky the handywoman fixing up the apartment next door (Gina Gershon)--has caused a certain amount of prerelease stir. But their relationship is more verbal than physical (with their sexual encounters very discreetly managed), and the fun of this movie--written and directed by the brothers Wachowski, Larry and Andy--lies elsewhere...
...often asked after a Baghdad trip why these hard-pressed people don't rebel against Saddam. The middle class has fallen the furthest and would seem to be a vast pool of potential discontent. But U.S. agents have attempted to stir them to rebellion with scant success. That the middle class is not in a revolutionary mood is understandable when you pair the severe U.N. economic sanctions with the government's preoccupation with protecting its internal security. Their priority is the struggle for sustenance for themselves and their families, a daily struggle that leaves little room for other than dreaming...
...listened intently to all non-student speeches, she ignored [Megan L.] Peimer '97 and [Corinne E.] Funk '97 as they spoke, instead reading the contents of a folder she carried on-stage with her, observers said." Readers wondered if "unnamed observers" was really code for "Crimson reporter trying to stir up trouble...
...election of 1996 had less whoop and holler than it might have, it was because the electorate had become like Sherlock Holmes' dog in the nighttime: the dog did not stir because it knew its master. Not that people didn't care about the election. They knew what was coming, because they had ordered it up themselves. They felt the country was doing O.K., and at the same time they understood that the government they were about to put in place was unlikely to have anything to do with their lives...