Word: rebels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...common defense of the Confederate flag is that it does not only represent Dixie's shameful history, but the better elements of the Southern tradition as well. One disgruntled reader attempted to equate the rebel flag with the U.S. flag, which has also stood for torture and murder...
Unfortunately, he and the majority of anti-Confederate Flag militants have yet to realize that modern Southerners view the Rebel Flag not as "a symbolic middle finger cast at those who supported justice and equal rights," but as a symbolic middle finger cast at those who hold so many racist stereotypes of the white Southerner. --Randy Karger...
Movies like "Rebel Without a Cause," "The Incredible Shrinking Man," "Lassie," "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" and "Jailhouse Rock" are all class requirements...
...says in The Celluloid Closet, "a ghost that nobody believes in." So gays went looking for kinship in any movie character who was artistic, flamboyant, wounded. They still do, and some of the subtextual readings in The Celluloid Closet result in eyestrain. "We know the Sal Mineo character in Rebel Without a Cause is gay," asserts British film historian Richard Dyer, "partly because he has a picture of Alan Ladd in his locker." Well, maybe Mineo was just...sensitive. But even if these interpretations are wrong, they are telling: they indicate how desperate some gays have been to find their...
Chungking has enough wit and pace to keep any mall crowd entertained. But it's the cinema verve of Wong's five films to date that makes them wholly his, whether he's doing gangster films (As Tears Go By, Fallen Angels), young-rebel dramas (Days of Being Wild) or kung-fu sagas (Ashes of Time, a film so beautifully bizarre it might be the first Martian-arts movie). The elements of his visual style: nightscapes (bars, beds, jukeboxes); sulky boys in white shirts; anomie punctuated by awful violence; murky lighting, as if scenes had been shot underwater and daubed...