Word: uproars
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Jaleo is the Spanish word for ruckus or uproar. In 1886, John Singer Sargent masterfully captured the uproar of the flamenco dance in his well-known work "El Jaleo...
...natural in a democracy for people to worry most about the influence they cannot see -- which helps explain the uproar when their worst suspicions are confirmed by what they do see. Some commentators went off like a cheap car alarm when Rosalynn Carter's fingers grazed the doorknob of the Cabinet room. Columnists conjured up Lady Macbeth when Nancy Reagan introduced policy-by- horoscope, or when she nudged her husband at a press conference on the hostages and urgently whispered, "Tell them you're doing the best...
...Kissinger and Nixon kept these letters secret from Congress -- and even from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As it turned out, Congress was unwilling to authorize force either to press the MIA issue or to save the Thieu government. When the secret letters became public two years later, an uproar ensued that further undermined Kissinger's credibility...
Three years ago, Harvard changed its housing lottery in an effort to break some House stereotypes and to create a more diverse atmosphere. At the time, there was an enormous uproar that students would no longer have any choice in the housing lottery. So the University settled on a compromise plan that allows blocking groups to list four house to be placed in random order, if their lottery number is high enough, they get one of those four houses...
...movie director Spike Lee set off a small tabloid uproar not long ago when he suggested that young blacks should skip school if necessary to see his movie biography of Malcolm X when it opens this fall. A hideously wrong message, people said, undermining discipline and education. But Spike Lee understands a central truth: what is occurring today is a war of American myths, a struggle of contending stories. And pop culture, often television, is the arena in which it is being fought...