Word: rebellion
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...Botha's Durban speech failed to live up to its advance billing remains a subject of intense speculation. The initial explanation was that there had been a right-wing rebellion within his Cabinet. Diplomats, businessmen and journalists reject that theory, however, noting that the high-level officials who previewed the speech stressed that it had already been approved by a special Cabinet committee. One top official told TIME that the reforms would become "government policy" unless Botha himself revised the draft. South Africans suggest three more plausible explanations. Botha may have changed his mind at the last minute...
...second decade of this century the expansion of market relations into new spheres of social life generated major shifts in the cultural outlook for thousands of young Americans. This was the product of a deliberate attempt to equate consumption and the satisfaction of prefabricated desires with freedom and youthful rebellion, thereby facilitating the production of new conceptions of personal identity which were almost completely dependent upon the possession of status commodities. As cultural historian Stuart Ewen has noted, the object was to capture the interest of the younger generation "since the youth were in general far more receptive...
...latest novel bear a strong resemblance to those of the earlier work in terms of their ambivalence toward home. Tyler's sympathies highlight, in particular, the eccentric habits of white middle America: middle-class, middle-aged individuals suspended between "Tips From the Beauty Stars" security measures and childish rebellion. When the glib young Julian, Macon's editor, sails into Macon's sister Rose's life, setting her spinster sensibilities spinning with soap opera fantasies, the rest of the family is threatened by the stranger's intentions to make himself at home...
...exceptionally hard on guitars. Now, at 40, he proves to be tough on the autobiographical form as well. Horse's Neck is a sort of album, words without music, consisting of 13 impressionistic pieces drawn from the author's life and times. Each segment sounds a theme: youthful rebellion, sexual obsession, the burden of celebrity, self-realization (once known as growing...
...reportedly put out a warrant for the arrest of a tank commander said to be responsible for the deaths of NBC Cameraman Neil Davis and his sound technician William Latch during the coup. Another seven soldiers and cashiered Colonel Manoon Roopkachorn, who is believed to have masterminded the aborted rebellion, are still at large. Prem instructed a team of police investigators to work "day and night" to bring the culprits to justice...