Word: rioting
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...under pressure from Mayor Gibson, the board finally agreed to accept the mediator's proposal-but called public meetings before voting formally to ratify the contract. By then the strike had become merely a symbol for the rekindled racial hostilities that erupted in Newark's 1967 summer riot...
...down to accentuate its jagged rhythms, "I was convinced that he was raving mad." Later, when the work had its Paris première at the Theatre des Champs Elysées, many members of the audience thought so too. They erupted in perhaps the most notorious riot of music history, booing, fighting one another, pelting Monteux and the players with programs and hats...
...time serve as concrete receptacles for the ideology presented by the sound-track. These images are not called upon to reproduce reality, but to act as models used in discussing, describing, criticizing reality. Rather than collecting a predominance of "convincing" visual examples of the system's brutality-Newsreel-like riot footage, malnutrition scenes, etc.-Solanas concentrates on the brutality (or ease) of everyday class life, presenting images of the human recipients-victims of profiteers-by the logical extension of the system's statistical inequalities being considered. These class depictions (signs) are designed to mediate larger social contradictions to a concrete...
Hundreds of white students fought with riot police for two hours yesterday after taking over the University of Florida administration building to protest the arrest of 68 members of the school's Black Student Union...
...father of modern music, the driving force behind the art in the twentieth century. With a combination of talent and courage, he opened the pathway down which hundreds of composers have since come. Everyone must know by now the story of the riot at the premiere of Le Sacre du Printemps, of the mingled approbation and opprobrium he earned for it. By the time of his death, he had gotten a place in the standard repertoire, but he never lost his talent, or his courage...