Word: rioting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...SIDE, face quivering with anger, eyes betraying his fear, stands a state trooper, leather boots up to the calf, white riot helmet, gas mask on his belt. On the other side, a demonstrator, mouth set in righteous defiance, shoulders hunching forward and back almost at once, spunk and fright in equal parts. The motorcycle helmet, the gas mask on his belt too. In between the two of them, eight feet of chain link and three strands of barbed wire...
Government police arrested her shortly after an anti-government rally organized by the magazine turned into a riot in the southern Taiwanese city of Kaohsiung last December...
...managed to play pro basketball in the European Cup League, which brought him a number of playing junkets to the Middle East. As a reporter, he finds that his beat reminds him less of his basketball days than of another sport. "Any eventa bombing in Baghdad, a riot in Syriacan have repercussions elsewhere," he says. "You have to assess the angle and spin of developments, as if the area were a giant billiards game...
Exactly a decade ago this spring, none of this was very obvious. Marshall's denunciations of the University of Washington's athletic links with Brigham Young University, a Mormon school that was accused of racism, helped provoke a nasty riot. Seattle Liberation Front and Black Student Union supporters surged off on a rampage through eleven campus buildings. They did little damage, but they roughed up some innocent bystanders and frightened others. Many carried pipes, chains and clubs. "Revolution" was Marshall's own word for this ominous wave of the future, but other rhetorical staples...
...good song (though not good enough for inclusion on Armed Forces, undercut by an unexpansive melody and Costello's lack of vocal control). The concept reappears on Get Happy!! in "B Movie," this time with a meaner, more controlled vocal; but the style, the emotion, is successfully rendered in "Riot Act." Hanging on every heavy, condemnatory thump of Pete Thomas's drum as he is led into custody, Elvis makes a last-stand plea on behalf of emotion to a cold, insolent spouse. Elvis climaxes musically by extending the verse just short of the chorus, tension building as he fights...