Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have to share, jobs that pay adequate salaries. Discontent has not driven Cubans into the streets though: they are too timid or too fearful of an unknown alternative for that. They still do not harbor the loathing for their leaders that finally drove East Europeans into open revolt. "Cubans are always waiting, for someone from the state, from outside, from God, to change their circumstances," says Rolando Suarez, director of the Catholic charity Caritas. "People are not willing to act in their own behalf...
...street corners of America, at water coolers, in classrooms, along Sunday pews. Now is such a time. Last month in New Orleans, the name of George Washington, a former slave owner, was removed from a school. This week Amistad, Steven Spielberg's epic about a famous 1839 slave revolt, premieres. Currently in repertory at the Chicago Lyric Opera is Anthony Davis' opera, also titled Amistad...
...something far worse than nonfreedom, that it is an institution that grants some men the right to utterly dehumanize other men. It completely justifies the bloody murders that ensue when this figure, Cinque (Djimon Hounsou), frees himself and leads the human cargo of the slave ship La Amistad in revolt. And slammed at us at the start of Amistad, Steven Spielberg's movie about that incident, it signals the director's intention to ignore the principle--lofty sentiments excusing clunky filmmaking--upon which most morally instructive movie epics are built...
...Czar's mother Marie (voiced by Angela Lansbury) of a land that festered with hot heads and empty bellies. The film then pins the whole Revolution on the monk Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd). Furious at being ejected from the Czar's court, he vows revenge, unleashes the forces of revolt, dies and returns, madder than ever, to chase down Anya. "We invented a lot of Rasputin's story," acknowledges Mechanic. "But parents and teachers who have seen the film feel this is a piece of history kids don't really know about, and it gets them interested in it." Right...
...think they were on top of the world, but just when the Republican National Committee had its best week in a year--winning two statehouses and a congressional seat--a potential revolt divided the party's ranks. What's it about? Money. A top official told TIME that the G.O.P. is more than $7 million in debt--more than half again what it claimed last week. Fund raising is lackluster, and party elders didn't like it when G.O.P. chairman JIM NICHOLSON directed $800,000 to radio ads in Staten Island, though the congressional candidate was never hurting. Nicholson...