Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hall at least, the action revolves around a purpoted nuclear attack, a pre attack evacuation and life in a bomb shelter. But at its worst Out Out becomes precious, a manipulative revival-house sing along, a punked-out version of Hair or Godspell brimming with those works' combination of rebel-with a cause naivete and we have seen the enemy and he lives in suburbia" pseudo-sophistication...
...surprisingly. The Rebel Angels focuses mostly on the tension between the cerebral and spiritual, the practical and intellectual in modern life. It is no accident that by the end Maria has married a young financier named Arthur Cornish; the intellectual community has come to respect him, recognizing that his business-like attitude and practicality are supported by sensitivity, culture and a freshness of perception. His liking for orthodoxy, for example, is in fact not a cheap attempt at culture but a bias which he is capable of defending intellectually...
After fighting broke out in El Salvador, a group of West European Socialists dodged bullets to meet with leftist rebel leaders. During the siege of Beirut, a delegation of Social Democrats picked its way through rubble to confer with Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat. When they are not touring global hot spots, representatives of the Socialist International, the umbrella organization for 49 Social Democratic parties in Europe, Asia and the Americas, meet frequently to make pronouncements that, they hope, will be heeded by an estimated 15 million party members worldwide...
...different. A campaign organized by opponents of the regime was indeed under way. And it was an open secret that the contras, as they are known, were receiving advice and logistical assistance from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Yet, by Western diplomatic estimates, only 2,000 to 3,000 rebels were involved in the insurgency, far too few to oust the increasingly unpopular Marxist-led Sandinista government, which is named after a Nicaraguan nationalist rebel of the 1930s, Augusto César Sandino, and took power in 1979 after the overthrow of Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle...
From the contra side of the shifting battlefront, the opposite seemed to be true. TIME has learned that, for the first time last week, members of the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Force (F.D.N.), a grouping of conservative and moderate Nicaraguans combined with former members of the Somoza National Guard, began coordinating their northern actions with another group operating in the country's south. Meanwhile, more than 175 Miskito Indians from Nicaragua's Atlantic coast have completed a rebel training course that will help them to lead as many as 8,000 of their alienated fellow Indians into battle against...