Word: rebelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...further spread of Arab influence and ever aware of the importance of maintaining an open seaway from the Indian Ocean through the Suez Canal to the Mediterranean, the Israelis sent police-military advisers to Ethiopia to combat the Moslem independence group in Eritrea. At the same time the rebel Eritreans received support from Egypt, Syria and Iraq. The backward empire of Iran. however, susceptible to Soviet influence and a possible overthrow by insurgent Marxists, established diplomatic relations in Addis Ababa. The Shah kept the oil running to Israel while encouraging the Kurds in Iraq--actions aimed at disrupting the unity...
...nights the flashing lights and thumping bass of a disco make the club-hopper feel more like a soldier in the trenches at Chateau-Thierry in 1917 than a happy vacationer in Florida in the spring of 1978. After a while, the beer started to lose its tang, the rebel yells started to sound strained, and the blond, tanned 30-year-olds lounging at beachside bars started to look like desperate characters. The mirage was fading...
...about writers, reporters report about the media, even as competent a pop singer as Jackson Browne records an album telling about the life of a pop singer on the road. Even Bob Dylan... but like a smirking James Dean (the star of perhaps the first rock and roll movie, Rebel Without a Cause) on a cheaply-paneled witness stand, we knew Dylan was never going to tell us the whole truth and nothing but the truth, no matter how solemnly he promised. There was always the wink, the knowing aside. About Dylan there were only rumors--his face is horribly...
...Front in negotiations. The main features of the Anglo-American proposal: 1) Smith's government would resign and be replaced by an interim regime headed by a British proconsul; 2) elections for a new multiracial government, on a one-man, one-vote basis, would be internationally supervised; 3) rebel and Rhodesian forces would be merged...
Popular it was, and may again be in the Brooklyn Academy of Music's revival. The locale of the play is a small New Hampshire town in 1777. The colonies are at war with England. The British plan to hang a Yankee rebel. That man is the Rev. Anderson (Barnard Hughes). But he is away from home when the redcoats break in, and they mistake Dick Dudgeon (Chris Sarandon) for the pastor, since he is having tea with the pastor's wife. Dudgeon is the village scapegrace, a man so revolted by narrow-spirited Puritan cant that...