Word: tumult
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...particularly with other artists—earned him an incredible collection of enemies. But somehow these behaviors get lost in the magnificent descriptions of the artist’s work. Somehow, in Francine Prose’s biography, the violence of the character is camouflaged in the tumult of Renaissance Italy...
...that people would move into areas that had already been depopulated, and were really unable to see what had been there. Following that, these ecosystems underwent huge change. So areas that had been previously been kept clear and full of Indian farms suddenly reforested. There was a tremendous tumult in a period of 200 years [c. 1500-1700]. The result of it was people just didn't know what had been there before. It was hidden from their view...
...Kremlin's propaganda heavies did have their moments until a hundred-pound dissident, Irina Grivnina, only three weeks out of the Soviet Union, took them head on in one of freedom's forums, the press conference. Not used to such tumult, the Soviets stomped off the stage in anger while a scornful world watched. The Jesse Jackson score was evened by another determined woman, Avital Shcharansky, the hauntingly beautiful wife of Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky, still held in a Soviet prison after eight years. Bella Abzug, the American liberal agitator, was met on Geneva's free streets by Phyllis Schlafly...
...Economy & Business 1985 was a time of tumult. On Wall Street the only direction seemed...
Most difficult of all will be navigating the murky waters of the Gramm-Rudman Act, the jerry-built scheme adopted last month that mandates automatic reductions in federal spending if necessary to reach specific deficit-cutting targets. The tumult caused by this unprecedented measure, whose constitutionality is under challenge, will begin almost immediately. On Jan. 10, budget officials in the White House and Congress will kick the law into force by producing an estimate of the current fiscal year's looming deficit, probably about $200 billion. To limit the shortfall this year, Reagan will be forced by Gramm-Rudman...