Word: uproarous
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With that, the Bastille exploded into the biggest uproar since a mob stormed the fortress prison to begin the French Revolution of 1789. Some of the brightest stars in the world of music noisily opened fire in support of Barenboim. Jessye Norman, the stately Georgia-born soprano, said she would "reconsider" whether to sing in the celebrations of the 200th anniversary of the Revolution. Patrice Chereau, who was to stage a new production of Mozart's Don Giovanni on opening night a year from now, said he considered his contract "annulled by this event." Conductor-composer Pierre Boulez resigned...
...only the first month of the new year and the NCAA has already created an uproar...
Gorbachev will be the first Soviet Communist Party leader to address the U.N. since 1960, when Nikita Khrushchev created an uproar by brandishing his shoe, pounding his fist and hurling insults. Gorbachev's sclerotic predecessors, Konstantin Chernenko, Yuri Andropov and Leonid Brezhnev in his last years, were too often tethered to life-support systems to venture much abroad...
...unprecedented uproar from U.S. Jews complicates Shamir's exquisite dilemma. His Likud bloc must either embrace the religious and right-wing parties to form a narrow coalition at odds with most American Jews, or entice the Labor Party into a broad coalition that would dilute Likud's strong-arm policies toward the Palestinians. After four weeks of marathon negotiations, the Prime Minister has yet to make the choice...
...after a public uproar, promoters wereforced to cancel the performances, and promised toredeem empty cigarette packs for a cassette tapeof the singer...