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...PROTESTANT REBELLION...
Maybe so. But with the Democrats in Congress divided into nearly as many factions as the Republicans, Clinton may have a difficult time moving boldly in any direction. If, by 1996, predicts political consultant Stuart Rothenberg, Clinton is plagued by a still sluggish economy, a party in rebellion and a disgruntled electorate, "the Republicans get to do what the Democrats did in 1992, which is run as outsiders who want to bring about change." That's what got Ronald Reagan elected in 1980, after a Southern Governor who promised new directions failed to deliver during his presidency...
...bladder squealed with the agony of Colombian coffee, and the buttocks murmured about the iniquity of the sitting posture. Stomach wanted popcorn, hair demanded combing, and the mind wandered into esoterica. Fight it Gubba, said I, and I did. All resources were summoned onto the stage and bodily rebellion was quashed...
...these references are convincing. Aegeus (Ben Vilhauer), the king of Corinth who has banished Medea, appears as a sleazy politico with a carefully blow-dried hairdo. He thunders that "the best things in life are family and country." Vilhauer's glib, funny performance suggests Medea as a figure in rebellion against conventional morality and "family values" fascism. A contemporary poem which the chorus recites to open the show similarly connects Medea's story to issues of abortion and societal restrictions on women...
...they left her under a tree to die of her wounds. Menchu tried to live in hiding but soon had to flee the country; two of her sisters went to the mountains to join guerrilla forces there. More than 120,000 people have been killed in the 30-year rebellion against Guatemala's successive repressive governments. Security forces are blamed for as many as 50,000 deaths, mostly highland Indians, during the counterinsurgency campaigns of the 1980s...