Word: revolting
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...centered on a family that has used terror and corruption for 28 years to grow wealthy by imposing its will on the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere. For the first time in Baby Doc's reign, spontaneous demonstrations throughout the country brought misery-ridden Haiti close to open revolt. Rioters controlled many parts of the countryside, and the government was firmly in control of only the capital...
...than 160 G.O.P. Congressmen were eager to explain why they had voted to prevent consideration of a bill drastically overhauling the nation's tax code, and the President was just as eager to persuade them not to kill his "No. 1" domestic priority and leave him crippled by a revolt in his own party...
...Reagan showed yet again why it is foolhardy to underestimate his persuasive powers and prematurely proclaim him a lame duck. Despite the obituaries written after the Republican revolt six days earlier, the most far- reaching tax-reform plan since World War II passed the House last week and was sent to the Senate, which will take it up in 1986. The surprising bipartisan triumph by Reagan and Democratic Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dan Rostenkowski came during the prolonged and hectic finale of a year otherwise distinguished chiefly by the achievement of new levels of fecklessness in dealing with...
...legislative session are always chaotic, but Congress last week seemed to be spinning out of control, its leadership almost hopelessly fragmented. Racing to adjourn for Christmas, the legislators were unable to agree on a series of spending bills that faced the threat of a presidential veto. Meanwhile, a revolt by House members of Reagan's own party sidetracked--and possibly derailed--his avowed No. 1 domestic goal: tax reform...
...STORY TURNS on Beatrice-Joanna's revolt against her father's attempt to marry her to a man she detests, by arranging for his murder. As Brustein painstakingly pointed out in his program notes, contemporary (ie. post-Woman's Lib) theatregoers should be deeply moved to witness a woman destroyed at the hands of her domineering father. True enough: Beatrice-Joanna's undoing ought to give this play its resonance; we should sympathize with her dilemma while simultaneously celebrating the fact that it could not happen in the 1980s...