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...overwhelmed," Eros says, "that a doctor advised me to lie down for three months and not say or do anything." By 1986 he had been up and around enough to make a critically acclaimed feature film, Tjoet Nya' Dhien, about an Indonesian woman who led an armed rebellion against the colonial Dutch in the late 19th century. Shortly thereafter Eros started up DeTik with a ragtag crew of 16 volunteers. Using the name of a defunct crime tabloid, Eros published his first commercial issue...
Hynde is 43 now, and although her youthful rebellion seems tamed, it hasn't quite been vanquished. "Bring on the revolution/ I want to die for something," she sings on Revolution. Night in My Veins celebrates quickie sex. But the album's most intensely felt moment comes on I'm a Mother (Hynde's two daughters are 11 and 9), a feisty rebuttal to soft images of motherhood: "I understand blood/ I understand pain/ There can be no life without it," she sings. Hynde is living proof that even for punks, life doesn't have...
...current rebellion started when Pearl Jam laid plans for a low-cost tour their young fans could afford. They wanted their tickets to cost no more than $18.50, with service fees held to $1.80. Ticketmaster balked, arguing that it must charge $2 or more to cover its costs. Pearl Jam hired Sullivan & Cromwell, the prestigious Manhattan law firm. In a memorandum filed with the Justice Department, the lawyers claimed that Ticketmaster's control over tickets and its exclusive contracts with most of the leading concert arenas constitute anticompetitive behavior that enables it to prop up prices. Soul Asylum, another popular...
What about youthful rebellion? "I don't think the thought has ever crossed his mind," says fellow Kansan and conservative activist Christopher Brown "94, who notes that at Harvard, there is plenty of liberalism to rebel against...
Consider it rebellion or consider it reaction, but there is no question that Wasinger had made his mark over four years on campus...