His letters also refer to Lady Chatterley's Lover, which became a cause célèbre in 1960 when, after a landmark trial, Penguin won the right to publish it.
Like the Trump tower near the United Nations, which became a cause célèbre among that area's well-heeled neighbors, this building was approved without any zoning variances or public hearings.
I can't quite figure out who the target audience would be for I Spit on Your Grave (2010, Anchor, 18), an unnecessary remake of Meir Zarchi's grisly 70s rape-revenger which became a cause celebre during the 80s' video nasties scare.
The Nigerian Army, buoyed by support from Britain, the Soviet Union and the United States, surrounded Biafra and cut off all food; one million civilians may have died in the ensuing famine, which became a cause célèbre in the West, especially for John Lennon of Beatles fame.
Local civil rights attorney Jeff Blackburn took up the case of the Tulia defendants, which became a cause célèbre and resulted in the exoneration and pardon of the defendants.
Here's the follower breakdown for Chick-fil-A, which became a cause celebre for Republicans in 2012 after a top executive commented publicly on his opposition to same-sex marriage.
Acadia's border was not formally demarcated by the Treaty of Utrecht, which became a cause of ongoing friction between the British and French, especially on the Isthmus of Chignecto, which both sides eventually fortified.
We met in his local, The Crown at Burston, a village famous in radical circles for its "strike school" – in the 1920s and 30s farmworkers defied the curriculum of church and squirearchy and set up their own school on the village green, which became an international cause celebre.
When a bridge began to sway, it seems, there was a panic, which became a stampede, crushing people underfoot or causing them to leap into the water, where they drowned.
His speciality is what might be called biog-thrillers, in which a famous dead writer becomes a cause of crime.
