Word: rebellions
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...crusade, was a distant if benevolent presence. The boy's rearing was left largely to his spirited mother Ruth. "Stubborn but never villainous" is her description of the result. Franklin began smoking as a child by picking up discarded butts, and it became a potent symbol of rebellion. Ruth at one point attempted aversion therapy by making him smoke a whole pack, but she hadn't reckoned on his strength of will: "By the time I finished all 20," he writes, "I must have vomited five or six times...but it gave me great satisfaction not to give...
...open field under a starry Chechen sky to speak on his satellite phone. As he talks, an unseen Russian plane far above is hunting him. It locks in on his satellite signal, launches its missiles and blasts the field. Jokhar Dudayev, the flamboyant and impassioned leader of Chechnya's rebellion against Russia, is dead...
...have said, "I could make a billion dollars." In a segregrated America in which certain radio stations would not play songs by black artists, Presley more than filled the bill, and in the process helped solidify the image of rock 'n' roll as the music of white teenage rebellion. Unfortunately for Phillips--who sold Presley's contract for an unprecedented $35,000--it was RCA that ended up making most of the money on Presley...
...1970s, pranksters painted Adams with lipstick and this spirit of rebellion has persisted...
With an expression of art as contemporary as modern dance, it is not always easy to draw exact meanings from a performance. A startled leap, a passionate embrace, the hurling of dolls across the stage--all of these motions could mean a number of things. Anger? Fear? Rebellion against society? A choreographer's intention can be difficult to decipher. With a company like Paula Josa-Jones/Performance Works, however, those intentions can be nearly impossible to grasp...