Word: revolting
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...months that followed, editorial complaints about the publisher's "politicization" of L'Express swelled into a full-scale office revolt; a showdown between Servan-Schreiber and his staff in mid-1971 resulted in the mass resignation of the magazine's senior editorial staff. Nine of the former L'Express men began to meet regularly to plan a new magazine to compete with their former employer...
...innocent as Candide, he embarks on this quest. He plunges into war sates himself with sex, goads his father's discontented subjects to revolt and embarks on domesticity with a wealthy widow. But the elixir of life eludes him. After each venture he finds himself asking, in the words of Peggy Lee's song "Is that all there is?" Indeed, this Pippin might seem like something of a fool if John Rubinstein, son of the pianist Artur, had not imbued him with such a sweet and winning nature. His life, as related in this story, is more...
...rock groups share the evening with stand-up comedians or clowns and trapeze artists to liven up their act. Some musicians wear mime makeup and practice ersatz Marcel Marceau. Others appear in full drag-flowing scarves, high-heeled wedgies, false eyelashes, mascara, lipstick and cheek-clinging glitter. With the revolt long since gone out of the music, what is left is really a new kind of vaudeville or sometimes a freak show-occasionally first-rate, frequently diverting, but too often merely repulsive. Items...
What finally touched off the re tailers' revolt was Belgium's value-added tax (VAT). Nixon Administration officials have talked of calling for the same sort of national sales tax in the U.S., and most other European countries already have one. But the VAT that Belgium introduced last year is the most complicated of all: it has four different rates, from 6% on food to 25% on liquor. Retailers angrily protest that the resulting paperwork is intolerable. Says Mrs. Maria Hendrickx, half of a husband and wife vegetable-selling team in Brussels: "My husband can buy vegetables...
There is little chance that the government will repeal the hated VAT or grant another of the strikers' demands -government restraints on the expansion of chain stores. What the store owners gained is the memory of two glorious days in which they proved that they too can revolt. But in the long run, many of Belgium's shopkeepers, like those of other nations, will probably be replaced by larger retailers...