Word: insurrectionism
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The Bush-Quayle high command tried to counter this brewing insurrection last week by dispatching campaign manager Fred Malek to Capitol Hill. Malek gave House Republicans an upbeat private briefing and a slick brochure trumpeting the President's accomplishments. But many G.O.P. lawmakers felt patronized and berated Malek and his...
What Newhouse has been unhappy about lately is the New Yorker magazine, which he bought for $168 million in 1985. In 1987 he touched off a staff insurrection when he ousted William Shawn, the 79-year-old icon who had ruled the legendary magazine for 35 years, to bring in...
In the Third World the dissolution of Western empires gave birth to many new states whose borders had been drawn for the convenience of colonial administrators and enclosed peoples who had never got along with each other. Jockeying among varied ethnic-religious groups for pieces of the old imperial turf...
Call it the Touch-Tone Rebellion, the Phone P-for-Protest Uprising or the 800-Number Insurrection.
The emotional anchor for all Zhang's films is Gong Li -- her face a map of cool insurrection, her figure proud and voluptuously Western. But Red Lantern offers other, more exalted orders of ogling. As it plays out its melodrama, it | radiates a ravishing color scheme; it delights in the...