Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Classes in San Francisco's House of Charm are scheduled. An eye makeup coach strokes a ghoulish green ring around the candidate's left eye. Christine tries to match it on the right one. Only now and then does she rebel. "I got so mad at my eyelashes yesterday," she declares, "I flushed them down the toilet...
...street corner, three masked youths demanded identification. Armed with small revolvers, they stressed that 'this is the people's fight.' While they are sympathetic to the Sandinistas, they said that few of them were actually members of the rebel organization. 'We all want Somoza to go,' added a youth, echoing a sentiment heard over and over in the town...
...Francisco. The Postal Service responded by firing 100 workers. The militants refused to back down. Two weeks ago, at the Denver convention of the American Postal Workers Union, rebel delegates burst forth in a rancorous demonstration against their own leaders. The dissidents had powerful support: AFL-CIO President George Meany denounced the contract as "disappointing...
Iraq has also become a sanctuary for Palestinian rejectionists who believe that Arafat's stance toward Israel is too moderate. The principal fedayeen rebel is Sabry Khalil Bana, 40, whose code name Abu Nidal means Father of the Struggle; he heads a dissident Palestinian group known as Black June, after the month in 1976 when Syrian forces invaded Lebanon and fought the Palestinians. Abu Nidal, whose terrorist credentials include a 1973 attack on a Pan Am jet at Rome's Fiumicino Airport in which 34 people died, is under a P.L.O. death sentence for disobeying orders. Last week...
...doesn't wear the waist-long hair he dragged through those Nixon war upheaval years, and his tie dye shirts are fading in the closet, but Carlin still feels a little bit of the rebel in him. Carlin swore out at the world through his albums when they first started selling (he has now cut six); but in 1978, almost everyone has heard his "Seven Words" and his more innocuous skits on the Johnny Carson show...