Word: stirring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...begin, little white panel trucks carrying the clothes are still threading their way through traffic. The defile gets started nearly an hour late. By that time, the covered courtyard of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts is jammed with the press and the fashion faithful -- a tribute to the stir that de la Renta and Balmain are causing. On hand are a healthy number of designers and well-known customers: Valentino, Claude Pompidou, some major Agnellis and Rothschilds and a generous sprinkling of American celebrities, among them Marisa Berenson, Paloma Picasso, Mica Ertegun and Barbara Walters...
...government has vast legal powers to stifle dissent: an Internal Security Act that allows detention without trial, sharp restrictions on any statements that might stir racial or religious tension, and tough libel and slander laws. These have cowed most political opposition. "There is an undercurrent of fear," says a young man who left to live overseas. But Information Minister George Yeo does not apologize for "a political process that forces people to speak responsibly...
Pictures can capture history, but in 1992 they also changed its course. From Baidoa to Los Angeles to Sarajevo, the power of extraordinary photos captured the world's attention and broke through to stir the individual conscience...
Another fatality may be baseball's unique antitrust exemption, which a U.S. Senate panel, in separate hearings, was threatening to revoke. But would a lifting of baseball's monopoly be enough to stir sufficient rowdy capitalist competition to save the sport? The owners have made the game such a tragicomic disaster area that one hardly knows whether to call in the Marines or send in the clowns...
...only a 700 square foot shop," DiGiovanni said. "It's amazing that a store this size is causing such a stir...