Word: rebel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proceedings with their most dramatic moments. The onetime movie actress, 67, who was handcuffed as soon as her death sentence was announced, made a final, characteristic gesture of defiance by shouting the slogans she had used so often during her heady days of power: "Revolution is no crime! To rebel is justified! Down with revisionism!" At the end of the trial, Jiang refused to leave the courtroom, seeming to want to drop limply to the floor. But she was finally grabbed by the scruff of her neck and expelled from the chamber by three bailiffs...
...Buckeye Three they may always be, but unless the rebel schoolgirls from Louisiana get a reprieve, which is unlikely, they probably will not return to the all-white rural high school from which they got their name...
...that it was the court that was counterrevolutionary, whereupon the judge ordered her to leave. She refused. As bailiffs then dragged her unwillingly from the chamber, she shouted Cultural Revolution slogans, unheard in China for years, that echoed her radical past: "Revolution is no crime!" she cried out. "To rebel is justified...
Save for a few relics--the "rebel armored snow speeder" and the Destroy Death Star game--the Star Wars craze is over, replaced in part by a bewildering variety of careeroriented games...
Just as there is a romantic tradition that robots are inherently diabolic creatures that will rebel against human control, there is an equally romantic tradition that machines are inherently benign, symbols of progress and perfectability. Isaac Asimov epitomized that view in a famous story titled Robbie, in which a much mistrusted robot baby sitter of that name rescues its ward from a speeding tractor. Asimov then went on to formulate, in Runaround (1942), what he decreed to be, in the world of science fiction at least, the Three Laws of Robotics: "1) A robot may not injure a human being...