Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Excoriate Viet Nam. Even hawks, let alone parrots, have learned to deplore Viet Nam by now, so this particular arsenal of invective doesn't stir up a Modcom audience as visibly as it once did. Time was when playgoers would weep on their armrests at the old "We won't go" non-fight pep talk...
...first rule of Anticipatory Theater is not to look for hits and masterpieces, but for what might whet somebody's appetite or stir up a little talk. After all, Oh! Calcutta! has done more for the cocktail party than for the stage. Clothes will be the talk of the season as far as Coco is concerned. This musical, based on the life of famed 86-year-old Fashion Designer Coco Chanel, brings Katharine Hepburn back to the Broadway after a lapse of 17 years. Haute couture will be served with 253 costume changes, and the approaching theater-party ladies...
...Cuba, that kind of warfare has not been notably successful in Latin America. Venezuela fought off a bloody Communist challenge in the mid-'60s partly because rural folk often betrayed the guerrillas. Guevara himself was killed by government troops in 1967, when the Bolivian peasants he sought to stir up gave no support to his cause...
...government pledge to hold the line on wages is far more likely to stir opposition. Giscard indicated that the government would try to hold wages to a 4% rise during negotiations next month, matching the increase so far this year in the cost of living. To sweeten the medicine-and partially disarm the opposition-the minister slightly eased the tax load and promised to raise family allowances for low-income groups, as well as to increase old-age pensions for everybody...
...over high rates or poor ser vice, and often over both at once. At least a dozen utilities from Pennsylvania to California have recently applied for permission to raise their charges. If granted, the increases could add nearly $400 million to U.S. gas and electric bills. Such moves normally stir up only routine opposition, but this year U.S. consumers are displaying an increasing choler over the cost and condition of all kinds of goods and services...