Word: rebellions
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...Boston Underground Film Festival (B.U.F.F.) has some explaining to do. “Underground” quickly conjures up the image of trench-coated filmmakers tentatively handing their reels to festival officials in some rainy alleyway just after midnight—so there must be some brand of rebellion in their work. Boundaries must be broken, ideals must remain reasonably uncompromised...
...Michael Greene, president and CEO of the Recording Academy, gave a speech before Eminem's performance that was self-serving, rambling and a bit bizarre. I only was able to register individual words and phrases as he sought to defend Eminem's presence on the show: "Music... rebellion... uncomfortable... tolerance." Instead, I heard the words beneath the words, the things he was really saying: "Money... ratings... money.... ratings... shameless whoring of our values...
...1800s, thousands of Western missionary families spread across China offering healthcare and famine relief, eliciting accusations of selective distribution to the faithful: Chinese referred pejoratively to peasant converts as "rice Christians." In the early 1900s, Chinese ultra-nationalists marauded across the countryside, decapitating missionaries in the xenophobic Boxer Rebellion. But it was only after the Communist Party swept to power in 1949 that evangelists were finally expelled and extensive church lands reclaimed for farming. Most religious leaders later spent decades in re-education camps. When China reopened to the West in the late 1970s, missionaries were among the first...
...which was based on his years as a founding member of al Qaeda. He told of traveling to a secret hideaway in Afghanistan where he swore his bayat, or complete allegiance, as the third member in the group bin Laden was setting up around 1990 to transform the Afghan rebellion into an anti-American jihad...
...Kansai Yamamoto says, "The real core of today's issue is the way Takeshi lives." In the end, it's all about Beat. For Beat Takeshi's world has become as hierarchical as the society he has plundered for so much of his comedic loot. And Beat Takeshi's rebellion, which started as a genuinely subversive take on Japan, has become as ritualized as the culture it spoofs and as stylized as the gangster chic in his latest movie...