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...spirit of '77 was overamplified youth rebellion, as personified by Messrs. Rotten, Vicious, Strummer et al, then the spirit of 1979 was all about experimentation: building new kinds of musical structures in the postapocalyptic terrain of post-punk, post-boom, post-rock and roll England. Nobody did it better than the London-based Raincoats, whose 1979 first LP has reappeared in America as a DGC CD (apparently at the request of some guy from Seattle named Cobain, who's been a big Raincoats fan for years). If they're famous for anything, the Raincoats are famous for their feminism...
Administration officials quickly tried to dampen the rising rebellion. Senior economic advisers led a hushed but urgent campaign to prevent the influential Business Roundtable from endorsing a more modest alternative to the President's 1,300-page plan. White House economics chief Robert Rubin and Deputy Treasury Secretary Roger Altman telephoned insurance-company CEOs at Prudential, Chubb, American International Group and CNA to urge them not to endorse the rival plan, backed by Representative Jim Cooper of Tennessee and Senator John Breaux of Louisiana. But the Administration's pre-emptive strike met with resistance. Late Friday an informal straw poll...
Mexico's New Year's Rebellion...
...seraphim and distinguished from others by the fact that he possessed twice the maximum allotment of wings: 12. To Muslims, he is Iblis, a word perhaps derived from the Greek diabolos, the proudest of all God's creatures. And it was pride that would lead to Satan's rebellion and eventual expulsion from heaven. But even in the depths of hell, he retained an awe-inspiring dignity. In the words of Milton's Paradise Lost, "With grave aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed a pillar of state . . . princely counsel in his face yet shone, majestic though in ruin...
White recognizes that thievery really was at the center of Genet's inverted ethic. It was a means of petty rebellion even after literary success brought him enough money for monogrammed shirts -- which required him to match his aliases to the JG stitched on them. "Society hostesses shivered with anticipation," White tells us, "hoping he'd nick something when he came to call." Repeatedly nabbed, Genet spent more than four years in French jails...