The second-highest record price, $56.12 million, was commanded by Roy Lichtenstein, a leader of the Pop Art movement that caused a big commotion on the New York art scene.
Even The New York Times joined the commotion, in an item headlined "Churchill Coins Word Choatee.' " Despite such complaints, choate developed a momentum all its own, at least in American legal circles.
"I never expected the new pictures to raise a commotion," she says, "and I was very distressed that the presentation caused anguish for the museum, which is a wonderful treasure.
Again a chaotic sequence of broken sounds and echoes filled the air, bouncing off each other, suffocating, going off in all directions, and gradually vanishing in the commotion of a new day and in the cries of the fisherman.
"I've had friends of mine call me and say, 'God, it must be awful for you there,' " Ernie Accorsi, the Giants' general manager (and, therefore, Coughlin's commanding officer), said the other day, referring to the commotion that his new coach has caused.
Even before most of the details are made public, the first full budget for the new Department of Homeland Security is creating a commotion on Capitol Hill and among private counterterrorism specialists, with many prominent Democrats and security analysts accusing the White House of shortchanging the domestic war on terrorism.
The commotion is nothing new.
In all the commotion, The Mercury News sees opportunity.
New arrivals prefer the noise and commotion of the road to the idyll beyond.
Several onlookers gathered, and a twentysomething parked his new Ford F-150, watched the commotion for a minute, and asked for the scoop.
