Word: stirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Santa Ana Register, a conservative daily in California's Orange County, caused quite a stir last month. It reported that federal investigators were looking into whether President Nixon had used as much as $1,000,000 in unreported 1968 campaign contributions to buy his opulent San Clemente estate. The White House instantly denounced the report as "totally unfounded" and promised to supply a full explanation within 24 hours...
...first day as acting president of San Francisco State College, 4½ years ago, S.I. Hayakawa, wearing a plaid tam-o'-shanter, jumped on top of a student striker's sound truck and ripped out the loudspeaker wires. Although he cooled the campus, he managed to stir up some controversy of his own. Student activists have been trying unsuccessfully to stick him and the trustees with a federal suit alleging embezzlement, bribery, fraud, racial discrimination, lack of due process and misappropriation of student funds...
Robbing trains and stirring up trouble, he is known as Kid Blue. But when he gets fed up with a bandit's life, he uses his proper name, Bickford Waner. Bickford (Dennis Hopper) leaves his outlaw ways behind him and heads down the trail to Dime Box, Texas, where he puts up at the boardinghouse and lands a job sweeping out the barbershop. Polishing shoes or eating supper with the other boarders, though, Bickford just seems to stir people up. "You got no respect, boy," a shoe salesman (Ralph Waite) informs him one evening. "What am I supposed...
Appreciative listeners agree: on the current U.S. charts, reggae is represented by Johnny Hash's Stir It Up; his 2,000,000-record smash last winter, I Can See Clearly Now, was also reggae. Johnny Rivers' Rockin' Pneumonia-Boogie Woogie Flu is reggae, although, title to the contrary, his L.A. Reggae album lacks true reggae's eccentric upside-down shuffle beat. Three Dog Night's Black and White qualifies and Harry Nilsson's Coconut (1972) has a whiff of the island sound...
Even Muriel Spark's set-piece satire is only sporadically rich enough to stir interest, most visibly at a production of Peter Pan staged by Elsa and Paul's homosexual son, in which all the parts are played by people over 60. "It's sick!" members of the audience shout. A collective American voice replies, "Sick is real! Sick is interesting!" Not all that interesting, though. It is far easier in fiction than in life to distinguish the quick from the dead...