Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revolt abruptly ended the 34-year rule of Stroessner, an autocrat who had shown every promise of realizing the dream of all dictators: to die in bed, holding power to the end. There had been only the slightest intimations that Stroessner's days were numbered. Despite close personal ties between the two generals (Rodriguez's daughter is married to Stroessner's son), Rodriguez had quietly sided with a faction within the ruling Colorado Party that favors limited democratic reforms. As a result, Stroessner reportedly was on the verge of moving Rodriguez to a purely ceremonial position. Rodriguez, who has headed...
Laloux's Fantastic Planet won the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix in 1973 for its elaborate and vivid animation techniques. The futuristic plot centers on the story of the "Revolt of the Oms," survivors of a world disaster, who are kept as pets by other surviving world members...
FRANCE had the French Revolution. And soon after, France also had protracted historical arguments about the legacy of their popular revolt...
...sweet the balm of history. Like its half-mad hero, Lawrence of Arabia defied the odds and won -- seven Oscars, to be exact. And like T.E. Lawrence, the Oxford-bred English lieutenant who led a Bedouin revolt against the colonial Turks, David Lean's film has grown in legend. Critics revere it as the cinema's greatest epic, and a young generation of filmmakers fondly cite its achievement and impact. "To me it is one of the most beautiful films ever made," says Martin Scorsese, whose Last Temptation of Christ was a Lawrence on the cheap. "The day before...
...revolt follows a festering dispute within the ruling Colorado Party between a militant pro-Stroessner faction and traditionalists who want to distance the 100-year-old party from the unpopular, authoritarian general...