Word: rebellion
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...voter rebellion that House minority whip Newt Gingrich helped foment bit back and drew some of Newt's own blood. The cantankerous seven-term Georgia Congressman won a nasty primary battle against little-known Herman Clark by a vapor-thin 980 votes out of 70,384. Clark painted Gingrich as the sort of check-bouncing, pay-raising incumbent voters love to unseat. Still, barring a massive collapse of Republican support in Atlanta's affluent northern suburbs, Gingrich is a good bet to win the general election this fall...
Central to this sense of cultural and political uniqueness is the Catalan language. As Hughes observes, "In Catalunya, language and politics are entwined , interwoven, inseparable." During the dictatorship of Franco, in fact, one way of stamping out any leftover feelings of rebellion was to ban the public use of Catalan. When writers could not be published in Catalan, they used it as a gesture of political defiance...
...always has been a place of industry. In fact, for most of the 19th century it was the only industrial city in Spain, a sort of Mediterranean Manchester raised to wealth on cotton, silk and metal, presided over by a triumphant bourgeoisie and racked by working-class (especially anarchist) rebellion. Catalans are archetypally producers rather than dreamers, and they tend to pride themselves on what they call seny, common sense raised almost to the level of a theological virtue. They like you to know they have molta feina, a work overload. They do not see themselves or their capital...
...stopped me for nothin'!"), spread-eagled against a police car, pushed around. It's not a "responsible" fantasy (fantasies seldom are). It's not even a very creative one. In fact, the sad thing about Cop Killer is that it falls for the cheapest, most conventional image of rebellion that our culture offers: the lone gunman spraying fire from his AK-47. This is not "sedition"; it's the familiar, all-American, Hollywood-style pornography of violence...
...immortal, radically improved fighting machines. It further posits a squad of these supertroopers running around the U.S. as a rogue police force. It's a whopper, all right. But Jean- Claude Van Damme is appealing as a "UniSol" whose memories of a previous life recur and lead him into rebellion. Roland Emmerich's film may be nothing more than lowbrow, high-cal entertainment, but with the action genre now encrusted with dubious aspirations (Alien 3, Batman Returns), it's good to get back to the bloody basics with a little style and self-satirizing...