Mart Crowley's Boys in the Band had caused a stir off-Broadway in 1968, Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing had been a huge success in London in 1993 and there had also been two stridently political plays about the Aids crisis: Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart and Tony Kushner's Angels in America.
A working ox named Lou, who in recent weeks became arguably his species' most prominent representative, died on Sunday in pastoral Vermont, euthanized after his impending slaughter stirred a face-off between sustainable farmers in the state and animal rights advocates from around the world.
After all, her scrupulous work paid off: she stirred in me a sudden fascination with all things Korean.
The accusations have stirred outrage and set off investigations by attorneys general across the country, prompting several leading banks to temporarily cease foreclosures.
"Loft Story" (the show's title is in English) may be as hypnotically banal as earlier versions of "Big Brother" elsewhere, but at least here there is the additional entertainment of an immense furor stirred by the show off screen.
In the interest of letting nothing go to waste, White Cow Dairy in East Otto, N.Y., near Buffalo, has introduced what it calls yogurt tonics, made from the cloudy liquid whey on top of yogurt that is usually either poured off or stirred in.
Also, she felt like a big fish in a small pond of stagnant water, which was politics in Russia, so when the opportunity presented itself, Sobchak stirred the water, took off the red suit.
While corn is still in skillet, but with heat off, stir in scallions and let sit for a minute, stirring occasionally.
The blustery rhetoric that stirred big, partisan crowds came off as shrill and off-putting when piped into a living room or a kitchen.
– Glenn Collins NPR: An audio taste-off between stirred and shaken martinis, with a few drops of science mixed in.
