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Donning Levi's and a college T shirt emblazoned STANFORD is not an act of political rebellion but of status seeking. For Soviet youngsters, Western products proclaim to their friends, "I can get what I want." A scarf with a designer signature adds a dash of color to what can be a gray existence. Nor are Soviet officials immune to the temptations; it is often their children who are first to sport the latest Western clothes, courtesy of a trip abroad or a state store reserved for the elite. "What cannot help alarming us," Chernenko said last year...
Invaders appear, or seem to: cannibals, neighboring peasants, armed servants intent on recapturing the house for their masters, although visions of rebellion motivate a few of these as well. Donoso, 59, keeps this panorama of victories and defeats moving through exhaustive permutations in high gear, and the translation from Spanish by David Pritchard and Suzanne Jill Levine proceeds vigorously. Imaginative enchantments pop up everywhere: the ballroom at Marulanda, where the real exits, amid a host of trompe l'oeil imitations, are considered false; the elaborately thwarted arabesque performed by a wife who offers her husband younger women...
Like Shi'ites elsewhere, they have been influenced by the revolution in Iran. Mullahs in southern Lebanon have exploited the rising tensions and encouraged rebellion...
...shared chracteristic with the liberal West. Some offer additional justifications. A mos Oz in the recently translated In the Land of Israel: "A living civilization is a drama of struggle between interpretations, outside influences, and emphases, an unreleating struggle over what is the wheat and what is the chaff, rebellion for the sake of innovation, dismantling for the purpose of reassembling differently, and even putting things in storage to clear the stage for experiment and new creativity...
...love and peace spirit of the hippie era. Yet, the punks use a traditional rock format (albeit in a much harsher, angrier form than that of the 60s) as their instrument in fighting the rock music of the 60s and 70s. The punk movement may have started as a rebellion against the falseness of the decaying ideas of the hippie revolution. But by the 80s, the slashed haircuts, the bondage imagery, and the talk of anarchy was no more realistic and no less pretentious than the long hair, the beads, and the talk of free love and revolution that epitomized...