Their new film, similarly celebrating an intransigently independent, anti-social clan engaged in a fight with oppressive authorities, is less coherent and persuasive.
Multiple eyewitnesses have stated that the officer shot Mr Brown as he was trying to get away, after an argument that started (according to a friend of Mr Brown) when the policeman issued an expletive-laden command for the two friends to walk on the sidewalk, not in the street.Confrontations between angry citizens and oppressive authorities figure prominently in the American political imagination.
An oppressive authority figure hovers in the show as at the House of Journalists, where the ensemble cast also constantly changes.
The apparatus is, in other words, a 20th-century-style attempt to strip the scientific lab-machine of its oppressive authority.
10. "The Other Half" (2007, Ying Liang): The other of the decade's two best new filmmakers, the one who does dramas, bringing a laser-like analytical eye to the crossroads of private life and oppressive authority.
Yet the filmmaker's frustration and anger develop under placid, modestly beautiful, and touching depictions of daily life under siege — both from oppressive authority without and unaddressed demons within.
His biggest work of the decade after "Opera" was "Coro," for 40 singers and 40 instrumentalists (1975-6), an interweaving of folksong-inspired melodies with massive choral settings of words by Pablo Neruda, contrasting individual freedom with oppressive authority.
Whitney's work ethic was rivaled only briefly by Heidi Montag's, during a period when Heidi was refusing to submit to her boyfriend's oppressive authority and aiming to become the Carly Fiorina of event planning.
The veil for them was not only a badge of identity but also an assertion – one that a feminist Enlightenment philosopher might have admired – of freedom from the state's oppressive authority.
But even those with headline-level acquaintance with Russian current affairs can't fail to identify the film's furious jabs at Vladimir Putin, the Russian Orthodox church and a tangled intermediary network of oppressive authority figures.
Mr. Fink and Nicholas A. Curott, another economist at George Mason, argue that so-called bandit heroes are so admired because they openly jab a finger in the eye of oppressive authority, whether intrusive government or, in Mr. Slater's case, an overbearing workplace.
