Word: stirringly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Long lists of "all-but-certain" Cabinet members appeared daily in the nation's press, only to change with the next edition. Like Kremlinologists, Washington's mighty attempted to read vast significance into who was placed next to whom at dinners. Meese created a stir at one by sitting next to the wife of former NATO Commander Alexander Haig. But Haig, who was also present, would say nothing, and Meese kept repeating his favorite line: "Those who know aren't talking, and those who are talking don't know...
While U.S. officials have hinted at Soviet attempts to stir ethnic unrest in Iran, Sullivan's statement is believed to be one of the highest-level confirmations of such charges...
...music, but since then, the West has recognized martial music by its 4/4 march time--the same rhythm that, one way or another, propels the traditional rock song. Martial music is supposed to excite sentimental feelings of patriotism and community, then harness them to aggressive instincts; rock songs stir up adolescent anger and lust, and--depending on which side of 1970 you grew up on--either ignite or dissipate them. During the heyday of today's rock idiom, in the mid-'60s, the goals of the two types of music were identical: if you listened to the Jefferson Airplane...
...familiar as the Statue of Liberty's. When she died last week at the age of 87, from complications that developed after she suffered a stroke several months ago, America lost a long-enduring symbol of an age when s-e-x was something that could stir laughs as well as libidos...
Klein professes amazement over the stir. Says the designer, who plans to shoot another series of Shields ads soon: "I never thought that people would be offended. I'm shocked that there has been such controversy." But it is no secret on Seventh Avenue that Marketing Whiz Warren Hirsh resigned as president of Puritan Fashions, which peddles the Klein jeans under license, after a battle with Klein about the propriety of the Shields ads. When Klein started advertising his Puritan jeans only this summer, Hirsh had already made Gloria Vanderbilt denims famous for another company under such slogans...