Word: rioted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...band, which was formed in Olympia, Wash., and took its name from a local road, has its roots in the Riot Grrrl movement of the early '90s, in which groups of young women, inspired by the do-it-yourself aesthetic of punk, started fringy rock bands, fanzines and discussion groups that focused on issues relating to women (sexual abuse, lesbianism, female friendship and so on). The group's first two CDs, Sleater-Kinney (1995) and Call the Doctor (1996), received raves in the rock press as part of the general media hype about feminist rockers, but those albums were slight...
...half-time teacher, an amateur. It is the lifers who hold up the citadel, they who remain in the dusty stillness of the classrooms after the kids have tromped out. Amid the riot of The Nutty Professor, Eddie Murphy caught that look--all knowledgeable, all wistful, hopeless within his own superiority. Everything he makes vanishes except his size. As he chalks one line of an equation on the blackboard, his belly erases the other line. He is a visual fat joke. But he has something to teach them. He takes them seriously...
...notion that true love flows only to those who wear tube tops. In 1989 came the cult film Heathers, featuring a 17-year-old Winona Ryder as a teenager who undiplomatically cleanses her social pool of its more loathsomely superficial members. And throughout it all brewed the Riot Grrrl movement, a much hyped and ultimately successful effort by popular female punk bands to make rock less boycentric...
...majority of Korean Americans view it as a riot, not a political statement," Ham said. "There was deliberate targeting of Korean-American stores...
...prickly character actor who deserves more recognition, has too little to do as the terrorizing father in Shine, especially considering that he played the same character in Music Box and The House of the Spirits. That means a head-to-head between Gooding, whose bebop-ebonic hijinks were a riot in Maguire, and Norton, whose hat trick in Fear, The People vs. Larry Flynt and Woody Allen's Everyone Says I Love You, means he's sure to have a brilliant career...