Word: rebellions
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...want everything, you get nothing," the audience member said. "You have turned a patriotic action into a rebellion...
Though six states--Alaska, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington--have voted to legalize medicinal marijuana, federal law still requires them to prosecute any wheelchair-bound granny smoking a bong. But they aren't doing so, and that has federal drug czar Barry McCaffrey muttering about a new "Whiskey Rebellion," the unsuccessful 1794 farmer's revolt against federal liquor taxes...
...Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Joy Division created the atmospheric doom-rock sound. A clothing style evolved that was part Johnny Rotten, part Anne Rice and all black. Acolytes sometimes took an interest (purely academic) in subjects such as Satanism and blood drinking, which ensured this was one rebellion that would never enter the mainstream. In the '90s shock rockers like Manson appropriated the image and blurred the lines--until any shaggy-haired, trench-coat-wearing teen could be considered a Goth by his peers...
LANDO CALRISSIAN Episodes V, VI --Proprietor of Cloud City, which he won on a bet. Betrays, then saves Han, Luke and friends; later joins the Rebellion...
ADMIRAL ACKBAR Episode VI --Former interpreter for Grand Moff Tarkin; defects to the Rebellion; leads attack on the second Death Star...