Word: revolting
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...with this explanation. When Kunta Kinte plans to run away for a second time, despite his partially amputated foot and love for Bell, she tells him that her first husband was killed for running away and her children sold off, and that now she is pregnant again. If slaves revolt or run away, the family is broken or killed. So Kunta stays. Thus Haley squares with the current theory...
...pudgy robot" who is "an object of pubescent sexual fantasy." Singer-Songwriter Joni Mitchell, writes Contributor Janet Maslin, did not recognize her "giddy romanticism" until she had recorded six albums. As for Janis Joplin, who died in 1970 of a drug overdose, Writer Ellen Willis notes that her revolt against conventional femininity "dovetailed with a stereotype-the ballsy, one-of-the-guys chick who is a needy, vulnerable cream puff underneath." Besides such quarrying of rock egos, the book signifies that the subject itself has finally grown respectable: the anthology's giant glossy cover is cannily designed to grace...
...revolt had been brewing for two years among the older, mostly conservative residents of this farming and lumber town. Worried about the recession, dissident parents began protesting at school board meetings-about the expensive new high school, about the curriculum, even about the presence in the library of The Catcher in the Rye. Explained Janice Sether, a member of the Eagle Point city council, who has three children in the school system: "We don't like sex education in health class. We don't like gambling training in math class. The only way to deal with the situation...
...billion loan from the International Monetary Fund. The agreement in principle, which will be announced within a week, was reached after a month of tense, sometimes stormy behind-the-scenes negotiations. The talks became so heated that at one point they threatened to provoke a full-scale British Cabinet revolt...
Nora, however, cannot lock out the crescendo of revolution in the streets of Dublin outside her window, an uprising that would culminate in the Easter revolution of 1916. At the end of the play, having lost her husband and child to the violence of the revolt she was trying to shut out, Nora escapes the madhouse that Dublin has become by refusing to acknowledge it, by creating a fantasy world in which she imagines herself walking with her Jack in the country...