Word: revolted
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...Twenties, they probably didn't realize that their trendy Parisian salon continued a tradition started by another Harvard graduate on Beacon Hill 150 years earlier. The Great, the Undiscovered and the Unkown gathered in the "Beacon Manse" of John Hancock, Class of 1754, during the years of colonial revolt...
...lobster telephones and soft watches, his florid metaphorical chitchat and beady eye for the American jugular, finally managed to annihilate his earlier self-Mad Dog Sal, the insecure and ravenously aggressive young lounge lizard whose tiny, enameled visions helped create one of the extreme moments of dandyist revolt and modernist disgust. But today the only interesting thing about Dali is the obsessive grip of his pose. He has convinced a public that could hardly tell a Vermeer from a Velásquez that he is the spiritual heir to both painters. And he has done so, not through...
Wise Blood is about Hazel Motes, a young Army veteran who comes home to rural Georgia determined to overthrow his past. Hazel's grandfather was an evangelical preacher; Hazel decides to revolt against his legacy by starting his own "Church Without Christ." As forcefully played by Brad Dourif (the stuttering inmate in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest), the young hero is an angry, obsessed loner with penetrating eyes and a fierce bark. When he tries and fails to start his new church, he meets a large array of even greater crackpots: a charlatan street preacher...
...prison's 1,136 inmates dead. Two convicts were missing and probably dead, their bodies possibly consumed by the fires that gutted several buildings. Nine prisoners and one guard were seriously injured. It was the worst prison riot since 32 inmates and eleven employees died in the 1971 revolt at New York's Attica Correctional Facility...
...popular committee that has come to free you from a dictatorial regime, and here are your arms." This call to revolt was issued by 30 armed men who sneaked across the Algerian border early last week and made their way to the phosphate mining town of Gafsa (pop. 30,000) in central Tunisia. Joined there by 20 confederates, the invaders tried to seize Gafsa's civil and military installations. The local populace refused to join the insurrection, but it took Tunisian troops 20 hours to subdue the commandos. The battle left 41 men dead and more than 100 wounded...