Word: rebellions
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...beginning of the 1960s, rock and roll was an avenue for teenage personal rebellion, but it had not attracted the attention of the artistic community, who had long ago discovered sex and drugs. However, the two movements soon found idealistic common ground in the form of the American anti-war movement. In the case of rock and roll, the Vietnam War was a personal threat—rock’s young audience risked the threat of being drafted and killed in a war in which they did not support. In the case of art, the war represented the rejection...
...course the British would sell their goods to anyone, even former colonies. No sense in letting a rebellion stand in the way of trade, says Wilk, pointing to a tapestry created for the U.S. market featuring George Washington holding a tablet that reads "American Independence 1776." It may not be style, but it?s certainly panache...
...form of rebellion for a generation increasingly cut off from its parents. Teens rightly see that hard work doesn't spell success anymore?their dutiful parents are facing the gloomiest economic times since World War II?so what's the point? Why not go out and play?for several days and nights at a time? But running away to Shibuya or other metropolitan party hubs can be anything but a harmless lark. Some young runaways have been murdered. The lure of prostitution, to earn spending money or just to find a warm place to sleep, is hard to avoid considering...
...Social Democratic Alliance, withdrew from the governing coalition. The blast went off outside the office of the E.U.'s monitoring mission on the eve of excavations of suspected mass graves. Inspectors later found human remains thought to belong to six of 12 Macedonian civilians who disappeared during a rebellion by ethnic Albanians in July. GREECE Holiday Snaps A hobby practiced by a group of British and Dutch tourists in Greece grew into a diplomatic incident after they were arrested and charged with espionage. Lawyers said 14 aviation enthusiasts, or "plane spotters," would be charged with offenses that carry a maximum...
...matter that much. I do not have a discerning palate or gourmet ambitions. It is just that for a very long time eating the right kind of food—or, more accurately, my failure to do so—has dominated my life. Every unbalanced meal was brazen rebellion. Every celery stick promised redemption. And my choices were all sort of haphazard, based on what I could rustle up or find or submit to, partially because of four-plus years of high school dining hall subsistence and partially because food preparation itself just seemed so awful...