Word: rumpus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...just movie fantasy, and meretricious to boot? That is the source of a debate over the film's veracity and verism -- a controversy echoing the rumpus over The Last Temptation of Christ, but with politics, not theology, as the sticking point. Mississippi Burning is a fiction based on fact; it invents characters and bends the real-life plot; it colors in the silhouette of events with its own fanciful strokes and highlights. In focusing on the agents, Parker and screenwriter Chris Gerolmo italicize the gumshoe heroism of white officials while downplaying the roles of black and white visionaries who risked...
...Ricki Lake), who is plump, perky and, pound for bouffanted pound, the snappiest Caucasian dancer in town. The girl has that je ne sais quoi called Star Quality. Soon Tracy is outshining Amber on TV, modeling dresses for a full-figure salon called the Hefty Hideaway and causing a rumpus by insisting that black teenagers be allowed to dance along with whites on Corny's show...
...employee buyout offer that kicked off the rumpus gestated for two years. It emerged from a bitter 29-day pilots' strike against United over a ^ two-tier wage scale that provided lower pay for new hires. After the dispute, F.C. ("Rick") Dubinsky and other leaders of United's branch of the Air Line Pilots Association began nurturing the buyout notion, which the union members code-named "Operation Stealthco...
...Rumpus Begin...
...wild rumpus begin!" rallied Bok And so began the Cambridge officials trade against Harvard's expansionist real estate practices. From the stuffed filet of sole entree to the Queen of Sheba chocolate cake, councilors were unrelenting in their criticisms during the closed meeting...