Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard Film Archive: Bill Plympton's "I Married a Strange Person" at 4 p.m., Paul Morrisey's "Heat" at 7:30, and "Women in Revolt," also by Morrisey...
...turn it into a historic opportunity for greater wealth creation and distribution, into a tool for larger integration in the world economic system. That is especially important for regions that so far have been left on the sidelines and are condemned to oblivion and despair--maybe even violent revolt--if they are not given a chance and the means to integrate themselves into the world economy...
...appearance. But instead of ramming anyone, the students took an off-campus joyride. Officer Graham Baynes, who pulled them over, was obviously a toga-party fan. "The car violated New Hampshire law," says Baynes. "I told them the modifications they needed to make." Such is the state of student revolt these days, the pranksters popped out of the sunroof and meekly attached red bandannas to the vehicle's fins...
...frustrations that homework visits upon kids can irk their parents to the point of revolt. David Kooyman, of Covina, Calif., was so incensed about his three grade-schoolers' homework load that he exacted a pledge from their teachers not to lower his kids' grades if they didn't do assignments. When the kids found themselves lost in class discussions, Kooyman reluctantly allowed them to do the homework, but he is planning to sue the school district for violating his civil rights. "They have us hostage to homework," he grumbles. "I'm 47, and I have 25-year-old teachers telling...
After the instinct to lament passed, the instinct to point fingers took over. "We revolt at being associated with them," Leavitt said of a Salt Lake bid committee that had, in the years preceding the International Olympic Committee's vote on the 2002 site, crossed the palms of I.O.C. members with silver, scholarships for their kids, fancy guns, cowboy hats, skis and other booty that reportedly included call girls. While acknowledging bribery, Leavitt also implied extortion, by way of a "sinister and dark corner of corruption." Robert Garff, a local car dealer and now, gamely, third at bat as S.L.O.C...