Word: overthrows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this matter trouble you, for the sword devours now one and now another. Strengthen your attack upon the city and overthrow...
...insurgency as mere banditry. In fact, it has racial and religious overtones. Moslem emirates in the north ruled Chad before the French conquest, and the black, predominantly Christian Sara tribesmen in the south were their servants. The Arab herdsmen, who never adapted to French rule, are trying to overthrow their former slaves, who managed to adapt very well...
...family belligerent has turned his hostility outward?toward the System. He has established a modest production office?where he arrives anonymously in a Volkswagen. His movie company, Pando, forbids the word star. "We have other words that concern us," he boasts. "We will make documentary films designed to overthrow the church, Mom, Dad and fashion in general." Such projects are unlikely to feature Henry?and possibly not even Jane. But then the family similarity is marbled with varied outlooks and insights. They are not yet the new Barrymores. "We're not a theatrical family," insists Peter. "Someone else may think...
...describe than to comprehend visually: especially since John Thornton's set design and Lewis Rampino's costumes manage to establish with ruthless clarity the interrelationship (emotional, political, sexual) of this curious pastiche of characters. The Blacks-the suppressed minority, whether sexual deviants, freethinking criminals, disgruntled lackeys-all consort to overthrow the Establishment, symbolized by the Queen, the Judge and the Governor, perched high aloft the stage on a wooden scaffold, At center stage sits the draped coffin of a white woman, supposedly massacred by the Blacks...
...against empire, the cold war and the concept of consensus with wit, clarity and a cutting edge that once would have deserved to be called Tory. Frantz Fanon is ingeniously convincing on the subtle significance of the Algerian woman's veil, first in the tyranny, finally in the overthrow of French colonial control. In an interview, Black Panther Leader Huey Newton is equally to the point, perhaps never more so than when fingering the dilettantism of young white radicals: "I call their rejection of the System somewhat of an abstract thing. They're looking for new heroes...