| 单词 | provocation |
| 例句 | "But why . . . ?" "It was a case of provocation and murder!" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z But it was a powerful force for me, especially at fourteen, with my nerves bright and jangling, ready to launch into a symphony at the slightest provocation. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The art of provocation was unknown to me, and I would sit with his map upon my lap, the wind blowing my dull, lanky hair, happy in his silence yet eager for his words. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z But Nelson as a pupil is apt to turn teacher himself at the least provocation. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Earlier in the year, a new provocation had revived international protests against the bomb. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And when the same provocations are applied to nation states, they too sometimes fly into murderous rages, egged on often enough by those seeking personal power or profit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There were many people who had sufficient insight to suspect that it was a question of provocation. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Later on he learned to manage these fits, but he was left with a short temper, which needed very little provocation to blossom into terrible attacks. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They had the alertness of deer in the forest, ready to take flight at the least provocation. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z "If I took it away, no doubt I'd find a momingstar hidden under your pillow within the fortnight. Try not to stab your sister, whatever the provocation." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Lesser butlers will abandon their professional being for the private one at the least provocation. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z For more than six years now, Barack and I had lived with an awareness that we ourselves were a provocation. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z None of us could figure out the provocation, but that did not matter. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z With no obvious provocation, he leaped down to the floor and bounced right out of the building like a bright- colored, fur-covered soccer ball. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In the interim, yet another English expedition had attacked the Wampanoag, killing several without apparent provocation. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A “miners’ meeting,” called on the spot, decided that the dog had sufficient provocation, and Buck was discharged. The Call of the Wild 1903-01-01T00:00:00Z Understandably, it never occurred to Atahuallpa that the Spaniards were formidable and would attack him without provocation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Most people, fortunately, do not respond with murderous outbursts even under extreme provocation. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z At the least provocation, she would burst out crying, lose her temper, or threaten to end up in Bellevue, the place, she had learned, where crazy people were sent in this country. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Trina's father, Walter Garnett, was a former boxer whose failed career had turned him into a violent, abusive alcoholic well known to local police for throwing a punch with little provocation. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z She grew irritable and short-tempered, and any slight provocation made her explode in anger. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And in our village, believe you me, people die for the slightest provocation so there are not that many old people still hanging around. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They focus on the North’s chronic food shortages, human rights violations, military provocations, nuclear program, and dependence on China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Tal persisted in his provocation, though, and Fischer lost their third game as well. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Squirrels proved to be a virtually irresistible source of provocation. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Jupiter will be a source of continuing provocation and excitement for the future human explorers of the Jovian moons. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing you out there in the evening calm, smiling or humming, might give your neighbor an idea to coerce you from your claim using methods of intimidation, various provocations. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was a composure born of extreme provocation. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She had not planned it, but the question, which she had quite forgotten, from the Book of Common Prayer, was a provocation. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He could be sitting alone, watching television, and a shadow would settle on him without provocation. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z He had served so many kings, he could not help but imagine how they might have reacted to this provocation. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He forbade anyone to talk back to him and could tolerate no opposition; he viewed the slightest disagreement as a provocation. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I guess I’d been thinking that, without provocation, my students would talk, offering their thoughts and opinions on the issues of the day. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But finding that it was an invitation to further abuse, I had learned to refrain from tears, whatever the provocation. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z His pugnacious tone indicated that they were not about to laugh at Xenophilius, despite the clear provocation. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I am frightened and think quickly what I ought to do; for everyone knows that the surgeons in the dressing stations amputate on the slightest provocation. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The excitement of the party, the provocation of the tableaux, “The Wreck of the Hesperus,” the consumption of far too many sweets—the children were, as they say nowadays, over- stimulated. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z He rushed through a plea of provocation, and then he too talked about my soul. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z "The Brotherhood is against violence and terror and provocation of any kind—aggressive, that is. Understand, Brother Clifton?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “All the same,” said the King, “there seems to have been a good deal of provocation. Perhaps I ought not to fight?” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z We were sitting at a table with a man of about my age and a rowdy little girl who gave way upon the slightest provocation to uncontrollable laughter. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He found himself ostracized in the squadron by men who cursed his memory foully for having supplied Colonel Cathcart with provocation to raise the number of combat missions. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In winter her hands got so red and cracked, they bled at the slightest provocation. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The man, in an almost deliberate provocation, reached out and touched the fence. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Rachel, who sighted imaginary snakes at the least provocation, said, “Jeez oh man,” rolled her eyes, and announced her plan to pass the next twelve months in bed. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do we know for a fact that the North Vietnamese provocation took place?” one advisor asked. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Roth’s own writing was full of provocations on the art of biography, full of masks and veils and alter egos, obsessed with plucking apart the idea of a self. In ‘Philip Roth,’ a Life of the Literary Master as Aggrieved Playboy 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z At any provocation, the friendly-looking reptile responds to Oliver’s “munch munch” command and gobbles down his teacher, classmates and even the classroom decorations. Summer kids books 2013-06-13T19:30:41Z Mr. von Trier has devised many provocations over the years, on screen and off, but in the interview he acknowledged a critical difference: “They are usually more intelligent than this.” Derailed Director Cites Urge to Entertain 2011-05-20T23:26:44Z Rushdie's novel is peopled by angels and devils, propelled by dream sequences and fantastical provocations. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z They have empowered a passel of younger talent who are digging into, expanding upon and refining the aesthetic provocations of the hip-hop generation. After Kanye, After Virgil, After Heron 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Suicide, particularly in its early years, was as much a provocation as a concert act. Alan Vega, Punk Music Pioneer and Artist, Dies at 78 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z The provocation made him semifamous among classmates before he set foot on campus. The boring journey of Matt Yglesias 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z Principled disagreement is so easily mistaken for provocation that it becomes easier, if you’re not inclined to howl, to not even bother whispering. Is Bally More Interesting Than Gucci? Depends Who’s Tweeting 2017-09-13T04:00:00Z The black squares grew out of a provocation from a pair of young Black music executives. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z But "Ghettoside" works as provocation because of Leovy's chosen vantage point: in a democracy, we must hand over to the state the monopoly on the use of force. 'Ghettoside' focuses on one L.A. murder to make case for more policing 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z That such provocations occurred so regularly this year, and through the intercession of so many voices, remains for me the most compelling news of all. 'I am provoked, disturbed' - David L. Ulin on the best books of 2015 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z Some accused Vargas of staging a provocation, seeking attention for himself as much as for his cause. From journalism to activism: Jose Antonio Vargas’s life on the run Logic dictates that it won't be Leanne Mitchell, a perfectly nice girl with an unfortunate tendency to swerve towards power ballads without much provocation. The Voice: does anyone really deserve to win the final? 2012-06-01T15:13:17Z There seems little danger of provocation now: the comments of Covey, the young socialist, about the proletariat and bourgeoisie were met with the most laughs of the evening. The Plough and the Stars 2010-08-04T21:00:00Z But it wasn’t until Christopher Kane that any real sense of the provocation of female strength and rule-breaking was put on show. The Meghan Markle Non-Effect 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z “Women Talking” and “Tár” are two very different films, but they are riffing on the same provocation: God is a woman. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z The episode is so rich with provocation that it’s worth watching as a whole. When Hillary Was a Black Man 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z The occasional provocation notwithstanding, the director Elizabeth LeCompte and the Wooster Group, inventors of the theatrical mashup well before the term had even been coined, play it surprisingly straight in their approach to Williams’s play. | 'Vieux Carr?': The Boarders Put the Polish on Eccentric 2011-02-23T03:01:40Z That name turns out to be a provocation. One Indelible Scene: the Master Class in Ambiguity in ‘Tár’ 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z Vincent might deliver a comic riff on the cheap sexualisation of women's bodies – three women in cripplingly high heels, contorted into cartoon displays of provocation – but she counters it with moving references to real life. Vincent Dance theatre: Motherland – review 2012-11-11T17:00:43Z She vamps this month on the cover of British Vogue, a portrait of artfully crafted provocation. On That Bombshell Billie Eilish Cover for British Vogue 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z But Aminé’s was also an admonition against the late-night-television-industrial complex, which even during this historically ugly election cycle has favored milquetoast chumminess over political provocation. A Young Rapper’s Bold Anti-Trump Message on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It’s not a treatise but a lark and a provocation — and a work of blatantly commercial theater. Review: In ‘Six,’ All the Tudor Ladies Got Talent 2021-10-03T04:00:00Z Name one kid who didn’t get the allure, and perhaps even the metaphor, and some kind of provocation about adolescence: Warning, big changes ahead. Perspective | Olivia Newton-John, the pop angel who guided us to the forbidden zone 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The blue was meant to be calming as she started the performance, the red gave her energy to make it through April, and the white was a provocation, she said. Marina Abramovic's Costume Change 2010-06-02T17:09:00Z In his Times review, Lawrence Van Gelder wrote that “adults, more than children, are likely to find stimulation, provocation and controversy” in the film. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘I Am MLK Jr.’ and ‘Girls Trip’ 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z But such gestures feel more like sloppy, hollow provocations than the sharp political commentary Penn says he was smitten by. What exactly is Sean Penn’s role in the mysterious ‘Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff’? 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z It was also a provocation—the perfect title. “The Duty of Literature Is to Fight Fiction” 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Bang Bar might make more sense as a provocation than a business concern. Why Does This Fancy Shopping Mall Smell Like Street Meat? 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z Bouie acknowledges the noose is hard for some people to see, and she doesn’t intend it simply as provocation. Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z It would be natural for any parent, facing this sort of situation, to look for a fault in themselves, a provocation, a cause. 'He never even watched the news' – the Brit who tried to kill Trump 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z It is a museum for people who are as comfortable with art as social experiment and provocation as they are with untrammeled, winner-takes-all capitalism. From home of Wal-Mart, a world-class museum rises 2011-10-15T00:11:04Z That mischievous sensibility made Hockney's provocations go down smoothly with those around him. Hockney bio brings artist to dandified life 2012-06-13T20:48:04Z It was wisdom received as a provocation but meant as an encouragement. Virgil Abloh, Ambassador and Infiltrator 2021-11-29T05:00:00Z And it is also deeply intimate — and intimacy, a sense of being drawn into Lucier’s body and space, was always both the provocation and the enduring draw of “I am sitting in a room.” A Piece of Music Will Speak Once More. For 26 Hours. 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z And so the concert went: complex ideas with a singularly Brazilian flavor, delivered with breezy tunes, sly patter and a glint of provocation. Review: Tom Zé Brings Brazilian Songs With Breezy Tunes and Sly Jokes to BAM 2017-06-04T04:00:00Z The exhibition is a provocation, which is healthy. Architecture Review: ‘Le Corbusier’ Exhibition Opens at Museum of Modern Art 2013-06-17T22:00:48Z Imagine them back in place, and the gesture becomes a different kind of provocation: a vandalized Fascist salute. A Fine Italian Hand 2010-10-11T18:30:00Z Somehow, it captures the unsentimental, exuberant energy of the film, which is a treasury of ideas and provocations — a pocket full of possibilities. ‘Neptune Frost’ Review: Unanimous Gold Mine 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z Let’s hope Ms. Lee’s gift for provocation has rubbed off on him. Shows to Consider at New York’s Fringe Festival 2013-08-08T21:36:11Z Writing in Women’s Wear Daily, Bridget Foley imagined the move as a rude gesture, the ultimate in provocation. Don’t You Forget About Me: The Formerly Irredeemable ’80s Return 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z That’s why for a certain kind of fan, that gorilla scene signals a twisted kind of integrity, a commitment to those with a taste for demented moments of provocation above all else. Eww, That’s Gross. And We Like It That Way. 2021-04-30T04:00:00Z “Agora,” bristling with ideas and topical provocations, unfolds in a world of togas, sandals and high-flown language, a setting that might lead you to expect camp, classicism or “Gladiator.” | 'Agora': Rachel Weisz in a Tale of Ancient Egypt 2010-05-27T22:24:00Z “So much of my identity is about subversion and provocation, so to work with such a historical figure as Westwood was one of the most fulfilling things,” she said. Richie Shazam Is a ‘Multi-Hyphenated Renaissance Woman’ 2021-05-14T04:00:00Z Fox News, he noted, has a large and loyal audience that expects some level of provocation, creating financial incentives for Carlson to be outrageous. Tucker Carlson is losing advertisers left and right. But Fox’s bottom line doesn’t suffer. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z In foreign news, North Korea, in what some observers view as an act of deliberate provocation, launches a missile that lands in downtown Honolulu. Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Russia Mania, covfefe and the Category 5 weirdness of 2017 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z In the context of an institution as august and heavily insured as the Met, the show’s title, “People Come First,” feels like a sly provocation. Perspective | Alice Neel was the greatest American portraitist of the 20th century. Her work continues to astonish. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z He is committed, he has written, to an “art that celebrates doubt and destabilization,” and in this “Pelléas” he is content to query, never to provoke for provocation’s sake. Review: Debussy’s ‘Pelléas,’ but This Time All Boxed In 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z It involves deep pulsations; excited provocation through sound and concept more than traditional technique; low-end frequencies rarely encountered in life; long sustained tones enlarged through overdrive; or distortion or just force of hands on instruments. Music Review: ‘Drone Activity in Progress,’ at the Knockdown Center 2013-05-03T21:54:26Z This discomfort is crucial to the movie’s complexity and is why it works as somewhat of an ethical and intellectual provocation. Review: ‘Amy,’ an Intimate Diary of Amy Winehouse’s Rise and Destruction 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z Cathryn, as one would expect, took Bowman’s brilliant ironies, his tone of self-amused eccentricity and provocation, to mean he was capable of seeing himself in an absurd light. David Bowman and the Furry-Girl School of American Fiction 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z For all his out-loud provocation, he is a classicist at heart. Mark Morris: Loves Dance, Hates Brussels 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z His subsequent features, "Enter the Void," "Climax," and even his recent "Vortex," all attest to this kind of deliberate provocation as well. Revisiting Gaspar Noé's rape and revenge film backward in impactful "Irreversible: Straight Cut" 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z But “Klown” is a very different sort of movie — messier, less calculated in its provocations and more personal. A Look at ‘Klown,’ a Raunchy Danish Comedy 2012-07-20T21:21:57Z Mason describes it as a "provocation record" - a call to action, rather than a stubborn protest offering no solutions. Alternative Mercury Prize 2013-09-14T00:21:58Z Others gradually join in until the stage becomes a setting for quick departures — a dancer might leap into the wings with little provocation — or solitary meanderings. Dance Review: ?B-Sides? and ?Bound,? by Isabel Gotzkowsky - Review 2011-10-03T23:06:23Z But, Koolhaas said in an interview, provocation is no longer his goal. Boldface Names Give Los Angeles a New Cultural Center 2022-01-02T05:00:00Z What follows is a string of provocations by these malicious goons that peaks when they strap a naked Jessica to the hood of their car. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z “For Ellsworth it was like a joke,” explained Ms. Ryan, one that Mr. Kelly took as a provocation. ‘LOVE’ and Other Four-Letter Words 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z It’s tempting to dismiss the collection as a sensationalist, intellectually anemic exercise in self-indulgence, but beyond its obvious provocations, the show is a remarkably generous accomplishment. T Magazine: The Shock of the Old ? and the New 2011-03-09T17:17:50Z Because comedy is intended at times to get at harder truths via provocation, comedians tend to bristle at any suggestion that a person might be earnestly offended by their jokes. From Joan Rivers to “Opie and Anthony,” comics on the defensive are a sad sight 2014-07-08T04:00:00Z Here, the conscious and the unconscious, the intentional and the incidental, the energizing force of provocation in the virtually theatrical conventions of homecoming infuse a small-scale drama with intricate depths and globe-spanning grandeur. “Return to Bollène,” Reviewed: An Arab Man’s Painful Homecoming in the South of France 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z In a writing life that included poetry, children's books, short stories and political commentary, Achebe's criticism contributed provocations that not only shaped the development of writing from Africa but also the way we read it. The great Chinua Achebe was the man who gave Africa a voice 2013-03-24T00:06:34Z And the title “is a provocation, of course.” Knausgaard Tour Arrives in Manhattan 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z But in a movie like this, with all its pseudo-naughty provocations about body parts and functions, and its occasional forays into misogyny and ethnic and regional caricature, the real taboo is partisanship. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘The Campaign,’ Starring Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis 2012-08-10T03:56:14Z It felt like a mild provocation, of the familiar I’m-just-asking-the-question variety, but Aaron Santiago — a Street Hues tour-guide-in-training — picked up the gauntlet. See Seattle’s street art with this new urban art tour 2021-07-20T04:00:00Z Ye’s recent antisemitic outbursts and other provocations have prompted some in the music industry to wonder whether his behavior was related to his mental health struggles. Kanye West Tests His Corporate Partners 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z He flew into rages at the slightest provocation, like a kind of emotional suicide bomber. Books of The Times: William Styron, in a Daughter?s Words 2011-04-19T18:14:34Z She also said the players refer to their uniforms as “competition suits” rather than “bikinis,” the better to frame the idea for the watching public: It’s not about provocation; it’s about performance and psychology. Who Decides What a Champion Should Wear? 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Some early audiences saw the piece as political provocation. Ian Bostridge on Music’s Fuzzy Boundaries of Identity 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z Especially when backing Mr. Marsalis, he eased away from strict chordal accompaniment, throwing in frisky riffs and spidery lines, as provocation and framework. Music Review: Wynton Marsalis Septet Members, Together Again 2013-12-27T21:14:06Z The movie’s intellectual provocations — mostly pertaining to the elasticity of cinematic form — remain as lively as they were many decades ago. ‘Noroît’ Review: In a French Vision, Pirates Inhabit a Jacobean Drama 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z The fourth season of Orange is the New Black makes form match function: It allows emptiness and boredom, the sort the prisoners themselves are experiencing, to give rise to provocation. Review: 'Orange is the New Black' Rebounds With a Majestic Fourth Season 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z Each year the monks choose a different theme for the nativity scene as part of what they call a “provocation” to underscore the need for peace, he said. Franciscan monks put baby Jesus on bed of bullets to press for peace 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Mr. Haneke’s provocations are extreme reminders that animals often bring to the screen both an element of surprise and the weight of the real. Animals Continue to Fascinate Humans: Films Prove It 2012-03-31T06:36:09Z The title itself, “Mary Kills People,” is a provocation. “Mary Kills People”: An agile drama about the risky business of delivering a good death 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z He called the images an "unacceptable" provocation for attempting to associate Le Pen, who won 18 percent of the vote in April's first-round presidential election in France, with fascism. French far right to sue Madonna over swastika images 2012-07-15T11:15:55Z I see her as quietly, and quiet willfully, reckless, perhaps as a perverse provocation to the world around her. ArtsBeat: Cannes Q. and A.: Julia Leigh on a Modern-Day 'Sleeping Beauty' 2011-05-15T20:39:05Z While not overtly seeking provocation, Ms. Coixet does have her own moral and social agenda. Film: Isabel Coixet, an 'Unclassifiable' Director 2011-09-28T11:30:14Z Prints in gray and black also marked a change from the total-color shock of the last ready-to-wear collection, with body skimming panels and cut-outs adding a dash of provocation to Saab's slightly modified winning formula. Big-budget 'au revoir' ends Paris fashion week 2012-03-07T21:31:10Z But last week the squirrel – who she used to call Little Buddy – bit her and attacked at least 17 others without provocation, BBC News reported. Squirrel put down after attacking more than a dozen people in UK town 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The movie stands as one of the great dramatic provocations of the era, an unsettling domestic web of manipulation, exploitation and decadence. This week's new film events 2013-03-23T06:00:10Z In his teen-age years, he embraced minimalist and conceptual art, with a particular taste for the audiovisual provocations of the Fluxus movement. The Otherworldly Minimalism of Jürg Frey 2019-10-29T04:00:00Z The pregnancy supplies some suspense, of course, but the situation becomes curiously static, and the provocations increasingly mechanical. ‘Titane’ Review: Auto Erotic 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z By the time her fantastic debut, “Broke With Expensive Taste,” arrived late last year by surprise, those turned off by her knack for provocation had moved on. Coachella 2015: Ciara, DMX and more highlights from Day 1 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z There’s a certain provocation all its own in designing clothes to throw on and take to the streets, whether the march is in protest or pride. London Fashion Week Draws the Queen and the Rabble 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z This time, the provocation is to mix the supposedly marginalized club moves with culturally endorsed steps from ballet and modern dance. Dance Review: Cecilia Bengolea and François Chaignaud at the Kitchen 2014-05-07T21:57:36Z In practice, Brand and his team say they want to balance a respect for traditional Sydney with a touch of provocation. Can the Sydney Modern Change How a ‘Sporting Nation’ Sees Itself? 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z Another of the political provocations is a gruesome and unpleasant torture sequence — conducted by the player — that casts waterboarding and other violent methods as games played for the entertainment of the interrogator. Video Game Review: Grand Theft Auto V Is a Return to the Comedy of Violence 2013-09-16T14:04:49Z Each of these videos, in its own way, shows an artist deploying the form as a novel means of garnering attention in an increasingly scattered marketplace, using either provocation or participation. Good News for MTV’s V.M.A.s: Music Videos Matter Again 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Has he gotten louder, or loud with less provocation? Carolyn Hax: Who is right when they argue — a wife who cries or a husband who yells? 2015-08-02T04:00:00Z The work has been updated from the 16th century — seemingly to the 1940s or ’50s, the stage wrapped in dark-wood paneling — but gently and without provocation. Review: A Starry ‘Don Carlos’ Brings Verdi, in French, to Paris 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z His ideas were censored, and of course censorship can act as a kind of provocation to curiosity. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Author Rebecca Stott on 'Darwin's Ghosts' 2012-08-08T16:44:34Z For Zuabi’s part, though, “Grey Rock” is meant as a palliative, not a provocation. Perspective | A Palestinian play comes to the Kennedy Center, offering a comedic olive branch 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z One charitable if eyebrow-raising take deemed Madonna's face a "provocation," an extension of her decades of shapeshifting and moving culture alongside her change. The unreasonable, degrading expectations imposed on stars' bodies 2023-02-17T05:00:00Z This was obviously meant as a provocation, and it was taken as one. Henry James and the Great Y.A. Debate 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z This prose style is Self’s shtick, along with issuing provocations in the newspapers, such as his pronouncement in the Guardian, earlier this year, that the novel is well and truly dead. George Orwell was not a language fascist: Why we keep misinterpreting his words 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z “My strong sense was that he loved the performance aspect, the drama of it all, and lived for those moments of provocation.” The Life and Death of Andrew Breitbart 2012-04-13T23:02:42Z The moral of “Notes,” simply stated by Lolita, is both provocation and invitation: “The journey of decolonization starts with the self!” ‘Notes on Killing’ Review: For These Puerto Ricans, Promises Never Kept 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z It could be a time of provocation and indignities. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Mr. Ford, a fashion lifer with past lives at Yves Saint Laurent and Gucci, where he helped pioneer provocation as a contemporary fashion idiom, believes in setting a mood, thickly applied. Tom Ford, Where the Rich and Famous Go to Look Rich and Famous 2017-08-15T04:00:00Z “Sometimes it takes persuasion to say, ‘No, you need to do this,’ or a provocation for change to happen,” she added. At the Screen Actors Guild Awards, It Will Be Women First 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z This is tastelessness as moral righteousness, provocation as lecture—which sounds like it should be a drag, but in Silverman’s hands it somehow isn’t. Sarah Silverman’s Comedy Is Changing with the Times 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z "This art provocation is a form of violence against the sensitivity of many people," said Norbert Napieraj, a city council member who asked prosecutors to ban the poster. Mickey Mouse with Nazi symbol ignites Polish anger 2010-07-14T11:55:00Z Even so, there are shards of humor in his provocations, as when he invites Max’s ex to dinner and clearly relishes everyone’s discomfort. ‘Bungalow’ Review: Young, Restless, Drifting 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z But sociopolitical or aesthetic provocation is more of a side effect than a primary aim. Isaac Mizrahi Unbound at the Jewish Museum 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z Scott described it as “more curiosity than provocation, an artifact of a faded world brought to zombie half-life by the cinematic technology of the present.” Read It Before You See It 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z And at this concert, the mild provocations seemed especially superficial. Music Review: Miley Cyrus Brings Bangerz Tour to Izod Center 2014-04-04T14:50:17Z Part provocation, part meditation, it embraces silliness, ventures into scariness and from the start demands a measure of participation from audience members. How Do You Make a Play About Water? Drop by Drop 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z "Without warning or provocation, King violently and deliberately punched Edwards in the face." R&B diva LaBelle files countersuit in beating case 2011-06-28T22:02:23Z This was no provocation but a considered take — one I don’t regret. The ’90s Cartoon That Mattered? ‘Beavis and Butt-Head.’ (Fight Me.) 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z That decision — akin to presenting a string quartet in a punk rock venue — was a clever provocation, given German’s fraught cultural history. Testing German Ideas of Beauty 2014-02-19T14:22:11Z And for that image, they were saying that it was provocation for the sake of provocation. Rising design star: Naz Sahin 2012-05-17T21:42:00Z Kroeger’s statement is partly a provocation, but it is also a rather frank concession. Our Hate Has Saved Nickelback 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Brooklyn-bred, Harvard-educated, with the first of two Pulitzer Prizes to his credit, he was almost as celebrated for his brawling egocentrism and intellectual provocations as he was for his novels. Norris Church Mailer Dies at 61 2010-11-22T00:00:00Z At a time when dance programming often takes cues from museum exhibitions, cohering around specific themes or provocations, there’s something refreshingly old school in the looser La MaMa Moves! approach. La MaMa Moves! Remains a Freewheeling Home for Dance 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z It's unclear whether or not Ginn is actually pregnant or was using the gender reveal as a provocation. YouTuber's gender reveal by way of fart stunt draws strong reactions 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z “No matter how weird or tasteless it becomes, the movie refuses to be dismissed as a juvenile provocation,” Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review for The Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘She Walks with Apes’ and ‘Fauda’ 2020-04-22T04:00:00Z Like Bekka’s performance poems, it is unsubtle in its symbolism, obvious in its provocation. Review: In ‘Education,’ a Fictional Protest That Pales Next to Real Ones 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Margot was silent; I could feel that her special brand of morality was offended by my ridiculous provocation. “This Is Pleasure” 2019-07-08T04:00:00Z Where Peele's disguised his social and racial commentary consciousness in a horror costume, "Little Fires Everywhere" veils its provocations in the sort of broad, WASP-y fantasy people so fondly devour. "Little Fires Everywhere" is a gripping, soapy reminder of that yesterday's ills are still present 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z While the themes are fascinating and nuanced, the plot ends up feeling like a compilation of extreme actions and events that read like art as provocation. Lidia Yuknavitch's 'Backs of Small Children' evokes discomfort even as it dazzles 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z You might see it on a poster, or on an Internet meme; it’s done for the sake of provocation, for the sake of expressing anger. Trump isn’t Hitler, but let’s talk about fascism 2016-03-09T05:00:00Z It’s also the whole concept of a column designed to offer only the gentlest, most dutiful provocations. Kill the Bookends column: Why the New York Times Book Review’s most frustrating feature has to go 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z And when Voyager decided to make a forceful, fortissimo statement, late in the piece — in a relatively quiet passage for the chamber players — the provocation felt right on time. It’s Alive! It’s With the Band! A Computer Soloist Holds Its Own 2022-08-22T04:00:00Z I broached the subject of Griffith and the provocations presented by vexed filmmakers like him with Jacqueline Stewart, the museum’s chief artistic and programming officer. The Academy Museum Finds Good Intentions in Messy Film History 2021-09-30T04:00:00Z Some of this is deliberate provocation: we are told that real scholarship depends on having a private library rather than learning in the classroom. Antifragile: How to Live in a World We Don't Understand by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – review 2012-11-21T10:15:01Z For some directors, positioning the word “horror” anywhere near a film they don’t consider a horror movie would be erroneous or provocation. When Is a Horror Movie Not a Horror Movie? 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z The movie is managed with Tarantino's superb provocation and audacity, with a whiplash of cruelty and swagger of scorn. Django Unchained – first look review 2012-12-12T13:06:56Z “I’m certainly not above that,” Mr. Weinstein said of his knack for political provocation. Hollywood Revs Up Partisan Films a Year Ahead of Election 2011-10-19T22:54:25Z It reads as a provocation for us and a query for himself. Review: The Choreographer Kyle Marshall’s Spacious Slow Burns 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking, the film tracks Johansen down, and shows his peculiar life: working in the tanning salon, caring for his elderly father, and dancing, something he seems to do at the slightest provocation. Alexis Petridis on Inspector Norse, the dancing drugmaker 2013-02-03T21:00:01Z “But it certainly is a provocation to ‘victim feminists,’ whose premise is that the world would be pretty much perfect if it were scrubbed clean of all vestiges of patriarchy.” A look back at ‘Disclosure’: Does Hollywood prefer films about women sexually harassing men? 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z Almost everyone who had anything profound to say in response to my little provocation chose to say it outside Twitter. First: The Twitter Trap 2011-05-18T20:53:46Z The latest provocation from the professionally audacious Paul Verhoeven continues the Danish director’s obsession with sex, power and the humans who find themselves caught in the middle. The surprising sexual fluidity of “Elle”: Paul Verhoeven’s latest shows he’s come a long way since “Basic Instinct” 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z An absolute monster and an absolute masterpiece of provocation and bad taste. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z After a stellar couture show, this Gaultier collection proved that the designer has reached the height of his skills without losing a sense of provocation and fun. Special Report: Refreshing Their Identities 2010-03-07T18:41:00Z But the real secret to the show’s success laid in creator Alan Ball’s undying quest to top the last provocation. How True Blood's supernatural hedonism changed genre television 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z Here is one way the American era could end: China, on a pretext or piqued by some provocation, orchestrates an invasion of Taiwan. Are China and the United States on a Collision Course to War? 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z “Area 51” is liable to become best known for sci-fi provocation. Books of The Times: A Military Post?s Secrets: Espionage, Not Aliens 2011-05-15T22:11:44Z At 20 minutes this would have been an interesting provocation; at 45 minutes-plus it's pretentious. Josephine and I; Barnum; The Hush – review 2013-07-27T23:05:20Z The intervening century of stylistic revolutions and taboo-busting provocations now provokes its own question: Can art still genuinely shock? Art vs. Blasphemy 2012-09-18T14:57:34Z After all of Lucas’s provocations, this is one of the few things that is truly disturbing, because it suggests the hollowness of the putative critique implied in her work. Review | Artist Sarah Lucas takes all the fun out of being naughty 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z Part multimedia lecture, all provocation, this rather muddled show from the Sister Sylvester company is about the power of artists to incite action with images. Review: ‘They Are Gone’ Is Kathryn Hamilton’s Play About Protest and Apathy 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z “Short plays are often just provocations, intended to ignite the audience’s mind,” Mr. Baldwin said. Get. Arts. Fast. 2014-03-20T21:33:30Z Russian revolution escapee Tamara de Lempicka pioneered a style of painting that was to be the visual signature of the decade; Tallulah Bankhead's name became the very verb to express ebullient provocation. Flappers: Six Women of a Dangerous Generation by Judith Mackrell – review 2013-06-09T08:00:01Z They will attack humans without provocation, typically clawing away at the head and face before getting their teeth into the prone victim. Ted: the bear necessities of our love affair with the cuddly toy 2012-08-06T14:02:07Z “The big provocation of ‘The Show Must Go On’ is that there are 20 people onstage — great, sometimes famous dancers — and they don’t do anything,” Mr. Bel said. An Experimental Choreographer Who Isn’t Afraid of Failure 2016-10-18T04:00:00Z Refn announces his intentions with much deadpan provocation and gnomic iconoclasm. Nicolas Winding Refn: 'Cinema is dead. And now it is resurrected' 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z It is possible to appreciate Mr. Zulawski’s perverse ingenuity, and to miss his eye and voice, without quite succumbing to the strenuous charms and overcooked provocations of “Cosmos.” Review: ‘Cosmos’ Is a Madcap Plunge Into Retro Avant-Gardism 2016-06-16T04:00:00Z It analyzes the role of provocation in the work of eight Dutch and Chinese designers, and describes the cultural and economic contexts in which they operate. Design: Looking at China as a Creator, Not Manufacturer 2011-07-10T13:20:00Z Really the provocation is about the world at large rather than his lifestyle choices. Paapa Essiedu Knows ‘I May Destroy You’ Is Hard to Watch 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z His hard-won, childlike drawing technique softened these provocations, yet his grim gaze could be divisive — a controversy that Mr. Van Sant glides past with little drama or detail. Review: Joaquin Phoenix Treks the Long Road to Sobriety in ‘Don’t Worry’ 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z For Michael Slager and so many others, blackness and black humanity are provocations and excuses to kill. License to kill: Can any amount of evidence convict a white cop who shoots a black man? 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z For a time, he enjoyed a reputation for glib provocation — radio shows depended on him to fill out the hour — but the big Irish novel that he was long-rumored to be working on never appeared. Roddy Doyle was determined to write a novel that shocked — and succeeded 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z But his provocations are delivered with a sly self-deprecating smile that lets you know he doesn’t take himself too seriously. A Lord of Fright Reclaims His Dark Domain 2011-06-24T20:53:53Z Middle-class lives do come unspooling in “Another Round,” but this odd little film turns out to be neither farce nor moralistic provocation. ‘Another Round’ Review: They’ll Drink to That 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z So for their ambitions and provocations alone, two new FX comedies premiering Thursday deserve more than a passing glance. ‘Married’ and ‘You’re the Worst’: Pushing boundaries on the dark side of sex and relationships Cyrus’s taste for empty-calorie provocation continued at last night’s VMA ceremony, in which, without saying a word, she stole the show. Miley Cyrus’s homelessness call-to-arms proves she’s the next Madonna 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z And so they push against their pandemic-induced emotional free fall in the only way they know: by freaking out and acting out at the slightest provocation. Review | Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Our Country Friends’ is the darkly brilliant comedy we need right now 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z This is art as psychological provocation, casting doubts on moral convictions formed from social conventions. This week's new exhibitions 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z Take away the dancers, the ornamentation, the arched-eyebrow provocation and leave only the pain — a show solely devoted to elegantly rendered bruises might be peak Gaga. Review: Lady Gaga, the Flashy Provocateur, Battles Lady Gaga, the Raw Voice 2017-08-06T04:00:00Z The play, a clever two-person distillation of Nicholas Ray’s 1956 movie “Bigger Than Life,” pays deserving tribute to a cinematic act of provocation. | 'Tom Ryan Thinks . . .': Drug-Fueled Rants From a ?50s Film 2011-01-19T22:09:28Z Payton asks her investigators to hack into the couples’ Facebook accounts; there, she has them post a wanted ad—a provocation for the fugitives’ “circle of trust.” Who Dreams of Hunting People? 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z His language bristles with signifiers of provocation, but his arguments rarely breach the boundaries of acceptable, liberal-with-qualms opinion. In His New Collection, ‘The Rub of Time,’ Martin Amis Takes On Everyone From Travolta to Trump 2018-02-28T05:00:00Z It is the arts themselves — the traditional definition of the Western arts as sculpture and painting or, in more recent years, the conceptual provocations of the contemporary art world — that Gates suggests are minor. Review | Theaster Gates reconfigures the old art-world colonialism 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Every normal, tender moment is politicized as a provocation — a confrontation. Civilities: What’s so upsetting about a gay couple kissing in public? 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z She roared with laughter at the slightest provocation. Every Great British Bake Off contestant ranked in order of greatness 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z For too long, the response to the provocation that painting “died” in the 1960s was nonengagement: of course painting is alive and well, so why bother with a proper rebuttal? The Best Art Books of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z So there was no reason for this provocation and I really regret that it happened. Lars von Trier: "I don't want to be an adult" 2011-05-21T18:22:00Z It looks cheaply made and has a plot hinging on provocation and contrivance far more than good sense or good taste. The Boy Next Door Is the Bad Movie Hollywood Needs Right Now 2015-01-22T05:00:00Z You get the feeling the film is daring you to wince or take offense, but for the most part, its tasteless provocations are simply tedious. ‘Ninja Badass’ Review: Kill Bad Guys, Save Hot Babes, Look Silly 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z “Contemporary art is a powerful provocation and without provocation, there is no real creative process,” said Mr. Milgram, whose goal is to organize 59 festivals in Perm each year. Pushing Art, Maybe a Bit Too Far 2010-11-23T12:52:00Z This might sound a bit far-fetched, but the show, among its disorienting provocations, definitely places itself in conversation with the American canon and issues of black heritage. The Time-Bomb Tension and Thrilling Surreality of HBO’s “Watchmen” 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z And though rampant with provocation, Can lacked the self-conscious guile of much Western experimentalism. Holger Czukay, 79, Influential Rock Experimenter, Is Dead 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The album doesn’t seem like hollow provocation, though; rather, Cave’s version of roots music via Kurt Weill desecration is exhilarating. The 12 greatest albums of the ’90s 2014-05-10T15:00:00Z When the piece had its European premiere in Copenhagen during World War II, staging a work by a Jewish composer about black Americans was seen as an act of provocation aimed at the occupying Nazis. The Complex History and Uneasy Present of ‘Porgy and Bess’ 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z It will rather be a talking point and provocation. Henry Morton Stanley's statue will ensure imperial racism is not forgotten 2010-08-27T12:41:00Z The network sees itself as subject to threats in the wake of relentless criticism and provocations from President Trump. CNN increasingly sees itself as subject to threats after incidents involving Cuomo, Lemon, Ryan 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z “Diesel love provocation. Diesel love to see from the bad things create movement, create a positive energy,” Rosso added. Gucci Mane Among the Hypebeasts 2018-10-17T04:00:00Z The session was kicked off by novelist Ali Smith with a virtuoso provocation: style, she said, was a kind of roaring with life. Irvine Welsh tears into Booker prize 2012-08-19T19:06:49Z It might all amount to mere provocation had Mr. Little and Mr. Vavrek not delivered a taut, nuanced work that clawed beneath the surface of every situation. Music Review: ‘Dog Days,’ New Opera, at Peak Performances in Montclair 2012-10-03T20:58:42Z "I know what the article should be about," he says, with his characteristic mix of certainty and provocation. UK soul: the sound of the Union 2011-07-07T19:59:00Z His silence in the face of such provocations is beyond belief. Review | This political thriller imagines the unimaginable: a silent Trump 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The defendant was alleged to have accosted her without provocation before turning his wrath to her three young offspring. Paw and order: Dormie, the dog who went on trial for cat murder 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z Over the weekend, Trinity Wall Street’s annual presentation of Handel’s “Messiah” posed similar provocations, as soprano soloists exchanged roles with tenors, altos with basses. Review: A Singer Scales Back Her Grand-Opera Voice 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z And that is the point: The video is an incitement for its viewers, a blunt provocation for them to act. The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Last week, as his musical persona, Childish Gambino, he released a single and video for a provocation called “This Is America.” ‘Atlanta’ Skips a Grade 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z But there is a reason why that provocation was so effective. The hill of gold 2011-02-19T00:05:32Z The biggest names were Milo Yiannopoulos, the “free-speech fundamentalist” whose provocations got him banned from Twitter, and Martin Shkreli, the pharmaceutical executive who has parlayed his notoriety into a strange form of Internet celebrity. The Sad Attempt to Make Trumpism Cool 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z Daoud, though, frames such a position as a provocation, one more instance of the imperialism of European mores. 'The Meursault Investigation' re-imagines Camus' 'Stranger' 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Trump’s rebuke of an exhibition sponsored by CulturalDC, which promotes the arts and creates spaces for artists in Washington’s booming real estate market, was also strangely disproportionate to the artist’s provocation. Perspective | The performance piece ‘Ivanka Vacuuming’ seems to irk the first daughter even more than ‘fake news’ 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z "No one should be able to use this show for provocation and to promote openly anti-Semitic ideas," he told a meeting of senior government officials in Paris. French cities ban comedian accused of anti-Semitic jibes 2014-01-07T11:54:54Z The pair goaded their writers with clever provocations: write work that will elicit heckling; get the audience to sympathise with a monster; push the line between what is funny and what is sad. Fleabag’s Vicky Jones: ‘Porn was the thing that kept coming up ’ 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z In that context, “The Walk” seemed as much a provocation as theater. Four Months, 5,000 Miles: A Refugee Puppet Looks for Home 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z According to the International Shark Attack File, sharks attacked humans with no provocation 81 times in 2016. New Mascot for the Hamptons: Mary Lee, the Great White Shark 2017-07-11T04:00:00Z Unlike most of the mysterious conspiracy/mystery serial dramas of the past few years,"Rubicon" isn't a merry-go-round of empty provocation. "Rubicon": Eerie portrait of "Top Secret America" 2010-07-24T23:01:00Z At times, “Dietland” can feel fragmented, more a collection of provocations than a coherent story. The Fashion Closet, Seen From Inside and Out 2018-07-01T04:00:00Z The character’s insight is a deliberate provocation by the author, who wants readers to reckon with the humanitarian cost of America’s broken immigration policies. Writing About the Border Crisis, Hoping to Break Down Walls 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z It is just as likely an artless provocation. Cultural appropriation: It's about more than pho and sombreros 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z In place of reckless provocation and reaction, the New York Philharmonic made a daring, hopeful tour to Pyongyang and brought the symphony with it. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z More than mere provocation, there is a luminous body-positive politics to these paintings. New York Galleries: What to See Right Now 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Ms. Kazan has a similarly heavy hand in drawing the truculent Althea, who takes even the lightest remark as a provocation. | 'We Live Here: ?We Live Here? by Zoe Kazan at City Center - Review 2011-10-13T02:01:11Z It depicts the young author, cigarette clasped between her middle fingers, glancing to her left at some unseen provocation. Books of The Times: Edna O’Brien’s Memoir, ‘Country Girl’ 2013-04-29T19:31:34Z This insatiable thirst for provocation is, of course, nothing new for Kanye. Kanye West’s “Ye” Is a Slapdash Response to a Torturous Year 2018-06-02T04:00:00Z Gaga’s last album of original material, 2013’s Artpop, indicated Gaga had, if only temporarily, lost her balance on the tightrope of provocation. Lady Gaga's Oscars Will Prove She's Pop's Reigning Champion 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z The N.F.L. courts provocateurs, but forbids any actual provocation, thus ensuring, with rare exceptions, an expert but largely bloodless show. The Artless Spectacle of Maroon 5 at the Super Bowl 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Butane is colorless, odorless and can explode at the slightest provocation. Wanna get really high? Take a dab in the world of concentrates 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Her paintings “are both images and objects, surfaces and interiors, visual and physical provocations,” Contemporary Art Daily said of Ms. Molzan, born in Tacoma, Wash., in 1972. The Week Ahead: April 10 ? 16 2011-04-08T13:57:40Z He had made a culture of provocation so mainstream that he had lost the right to claim the mantle of outsider, the critic wrote. Is Howard Stern going soft or just getting sharper? 2015-12-13T05:00:00Z “I was a rebel at home and at school. I thought of rules as provocations, waiting to be challenged.” What the Rushdies Ate 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z The exclusion of these streams from the history of modernism, as taught at the time, became the creative provocation that has animated her work ever since. Jennie C. Jones, a Minimalist Who Calls Her Own Tune 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z “The New Digital Age” throws off many worthwhile provocations. Books of The Times: ‘The New Digital Age,’ by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen 2013-04-25T22:05:35Z Kipnis launches provocations with the frequency of a tennis ball machine. ‘Love in the Time of Contagion’ Observes Mutations in Domestic Life 2022-02-08T05:00:00Z "Its daily use in advertising doorways – it’s a material of advertising and provocation," the artist said. In pictures: Gavin Turk's neon art 2014-01-26T08:32:04Z The ubiquity of cameras feels increasingly incendiary: instead of encouraging best behavior, their presence threatens to be a provocation. Critic?s Notebook: Squad Cars, Sirens and Gangs, and the Cameras That Love Them 2011-01-16T22:21:09Z Based on the experiences of Christian Ellis, who was the opera's story consultant, Philip sits on his hospital cot like a caged animal ready to attack at the slightest provocation. Long Beach Opera's 'Fallujah' tackles the Iraq war with authentic anguish 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z For all the potentially dangerous subjects it glosses, above all the tangled legacies of the Holocaust and the Algerian war, “The Names of Love” dances away from any uncomfortable provocation. | 'The Names of Love': You?re a Fascist? Let?s Hop in Bed! 2011-06-23T22:23:05Z The jury saw a lot of provocation from both sides and couldn't attribute blame completely to either, said the foreman, who declined to give his name. Jury awards $40,000 in damages in Kid Rock case 2010-09-17T23:46:00Z Throwing out as many unresolved questions as answers, Chuck D's lyrics are a provocation to the listener: an invitation to engage and debate. My favourite album: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back by Public Enemy 2011-08-11T11:52:51Z Genuinely groundbreaking in its subtle and empathetic portrait of a British Asian community, My Beautiful Laundrette was a teasing provocation to the mindset of the 70s old left. The films that defined the Thatcher era 2013-04-08T17:40:00Z Both the provocation and the published responses to it — more or less evenly split between shock and exhilaration — had a somewhat ritualized quality. Film: Brutal Truths About Screen Bloodshed in ?Kick-Ass? 2010-04-16T18:47:00Z In its provocation and mischief, it makes you wonder what has happened to radical political art in the years since. PhotoEspaña 2013: the 1970s feminist avant garde 2013-06-14T15:50:00Z But that would require admitting that her supposed self-scrutiny — like James’s infantile provocations and Max’s clothing-optional put-downs — is the pose that it appears to be. Review: Openly Inviting Ridicule in ‘i hate myself :)’ 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z It’s not a provocation on the ramparts of contemporary aesthetics; it’s not a 2016 revision of R&B, particularly. Review: ‘We Are King,’ With Its Deep R&B Strategies, Is a Musicians’ Album 2016-02-03T05:00:00Z But his voice as an improviser was recognizably the same as on one of his earliest and best-known albums, the free-jazz touchstone “Machine Gun,” which landed as a blunt provocation in 1968. Music Review: A Kind of Orthodoxy Built on Improvisation 2011-06-09T22:53:47Z The headline-grabbing Twitter saga threatens to further Musk’s reputation as a purveyor of provocations. How Elon Musk became a new kind of celebrity 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Her words were measured and restrained; it wasn’t, in the grand scheme of things, an incendiary provocation. Meryl Streep's newfound politicisation fires up timely drama The Post 2018-01-09T05:00:00Z His dependence was so primal and unfamiliar that deep emotions bubbled up in me; tears welled at the slightest provocation — like a boy’s heavy head on my arm. Explorer: In Utah, a 100-Mile Trek With a 4-Year-Old Boy 2013-06-14T20:06:25Z What these provocations do suggest is that we are grasping for a punishment that seeks to mend a more psychic, public wound — a type of harm we are still processing ourselves. Louis C.K. Slithers Back, Whether We’re Ready or Not 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z But he also enjoys provocation: The master bedroom features a fanciful full-length Kurt Kauper painting of Cary Grant, nude, complete with tan lines, and standing by a roaring fire. Some People Put on a Show. Others Stage an Art Fair. 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z First of all, I like provocations, but I like provocations for a reason and there was no reason here. Lars von Trier: "I don't want to be an adult" 2011-05-21T18:22:00Z The men of Rich Bar mining camp are a testosterone collective — whooping it up, gambling away fortunes, shooting at one another at the slightest provocation and just as readily turning sentimental. Where to look for treasure in California's new gold rush? Try John Adams' new opera 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z Throughout the 20th century, body painting became more commercial as some began to use it as an expression of freedom or provocation. Wearing Paint Instead of Clothes on the Streets of New York 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z It is better thus far at providing answers than letting spiritual provocations remain mysterious. Danish String Quartet makes a truly fab four in Santa Barbara 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z Mr. Kennedy has previously walked the line between awkward comedy and audience provocation in a hidden-camera television series, “The Jamie Kennedy Experiment,” and a documentary, “Heckler.” Jamie Kennedy’s ‘First Night’ on New Year’s Eve 2013-01-06T22:48:18Z “It was thought of for some stretch of time as a kind of Fluxus provocation: just long notes.” La Monte Young Is Still Patiently Working on a Glacial Scale 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Though I also need to mention his provocations against Blacks. "Blacks and Jews" authors on Chappelle, Kanye caught in the "face of Black antisemitism" loop 2022-11-15T05:00:00Z This freewheeling account of an African-American cop who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1970s is problematic as narrative drama, but stunning as provocation. ‘BlacKkKlansman’ Review: Running on Fury 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z “Elle” exists not to be experienced but to be assembled, like a kit for push-button provocations and cheap thrills in a luxurious setting. The Phony Sexual Transgressions of Paul Verhoeven’s “Elle” 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z He directly jabs at an audience’s softest spots with his provocations, and backtracks just enough to make us wonder if we need to stop hitting ourselves. Trolled across concrete: why Mel Gibson's new film is a curious provocation 2019-03-22T04:00:00Z “The provocation at the heart of this project is really fair. It’s important to ask ourselves where we get our proteins.” Steaks Grown From Human Cells Spark Interest and Outrage 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Continue reading "'Mary' at Goodman Theatre: A provocation, without much truth" » The Chicago Theatre on State Street is owned by Madison Square Garden Entertainment. 'Mary': Slave drama provokes without much truth 2011-02-15T03:12:57Z The documentary’s shaggy run-time reveals Ono’s provocation in all its intensity. The Sublime Spectacle of Yoko Ono Disrupting the Beatles 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z It’s a platoon picture about a dangerous mission, a father-son melodrama, an adventure story, a caper and a political provocation. ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Black Lives Mattered in Vietnam, Too 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Say what you want about Charlie Hebdo’s provocations or its politics, but it was undeniably an act of courage for the editors to produce and distribute this so-called “survivors’ issue.” Why I didn't sign the Charlie Hebdo protest letter 2015-05-04T04:00:00Z It was a leftist provocation, equal parts “charm and menace,” as Magritte insisted to the Paris surrealists’ ringleader, André Breton. Review | René Magritte was an enigma. A new biography tries to make sense of the genius. 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z "And recent history strongly suggests that additional provocations may follow." Defiant North Korea begins injecting fuel into rocket 2012-04-11T11:40:07Z Suddenly, punk became a set of incendiaries designed for maximum provocation. Anarchy in the Met 2013-04-25T11:55:06Z The very title of "Woke" is both a provocation and something of a punchline. Lamorne Morris shines in "Woke," which pokes at one man's dawning realization of systemic racism 2020-09-09T04:00:00Z In the following edited interview, Mr. Mabulu, 34, explains what motivates his bawdy provocations. Bawdy Provocations 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z There, intelligence is viewed as suspect and chastity weird; virtue as smugness, and saintliness a direct provocation. Julian Barnes: a tribute to Parade's End by Ford Madox Ford 2012-08-24T21:55:03Z Of a piece with his musical collaborations on and off the runway, the display was a calculated provocation, in tune, as Mr. Oliver likes to say, with “the language of flamboyancy, the language of exaggeration.” Piercings and Eye-Popping Tattoos: Fashion’s Latest Canvas Is the Skin You’re In 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z In the real incident, Mr. Leguizamo apparently told booing attendees that Texas “hates its Latino people” — a provocation he omits in “Latin History for Morons.” Review: John Leguizamo Goes for Easy Laughs in ‘Latin History’ 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Yanukovych's office first denied the accusations of plagiarism, calling them a "provocation" against the president sponsored by his critics. Ukraine's leader accused of plagiarism in new book 2011-10-27T10:36:08Z You can rely on the novelist Will Self to combine entertainment, experimentation and provocation in equal measure as he moves in with Radio 4. Will Self in talks to become Radio 4 writer-in-residence 2013-01-18T17:02:38Z It is a difficult blade to wield, particularly when dealing with satire and political provocation. The first rule of satire in the U.S.: Do not offend 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z With Ye in Paris, photographed in her own “White Lives Matter” shirt, was Candace Owens, a conservative activist and media personality who shares his love for the spotlight and taste for provocation. Kanye West Tests His Corporate Partners 2022-10-24T04:00:00Z Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned that history pointed to "additional provocations" from North Korea after the launch, an apparent reference to a nuclear test. Defiant North Korea begins injecting fuel into rocket 2012-04-11T11:40:07Z That meant humor, provocation, four-letter words and controversy were welcomed rather than eschewed. Ten years of Jezebel: the website that changed women's media forever 2017-05-20T04:00:00Z When the deck of cards lands on the takeout-food container, it’s a plea and a provocation. Suzan-Lori Parks’s ‘Topdog/Underdog’ gets a sharp revival 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z “There are people who will undoubtedly see this as a provocation from the perspective of post-colonialism. But I think others will see it as a homage to Flavin and to his evocation of this island.” Dia Project Using Flavin Work Stirs Debate 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z “Is this a provocation? Is it a proposal? Is it a gift?” Whitney Museum Unveils Plans for David Hammons Artwork in the Hudson 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z But the level of provocation here operates on an entirely different level than, say, “Blue Is the Warmest Color.” “The Duke of Burgundy”: A tender tale of lesbian bondage 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z Yet, “Sort Of” advances no particular agenda, and if the show is provocative, that provocation comes from its lived-in tone, its quietness, its broad acceptance of its characters. Is Bilal Baig Ready for Fame? Sort Of. 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z The "Montero" video is a masterpiece of provocation praised by historians for its shrewd incorporation of Renaissance-style religious iconography to condemn homophobia, immediately triggering Christian conservatives and grandstanding right-wing con artists like Candace Owens. The liberating pink power of Lil Nas X's trolling continues in new music video "Industry Baby" 2021-07-24T04:00:00Z The remarks were noteworthy for reasons other than its provocation of idiotic and inhumane coverage from the right-wing media. The Evolution of Michelle Obama, Convention Speaker 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z Still, it’s safe to say that the mainstream curved to accommodate NIN’s provocation, not the other way around. Trent Reznor was robbed: Nine Inch Nails’ snub proves the Rock Hall of Fame doesn’t get electronic music 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Passions don’t tend to rise to such meteoric heights on a single provocation so I suspect they’ve been running high for a while. My three children say they never want to see me again | Dear Mariella 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z And “Drunk Girls,” the most rock ’n’ roll track on the record, grates in exactly the same way as “North American Scum” did on the last album: it’s empty provocation with a wink. Critics? Choice: New CDs by LCD Soundsystem and Band of Horses 2010-05-16T22:45:00Z “I love to provoke, because part of the purpose of art is provocation,” he said. With a New ‘Sin City’ Film, Frank Miller Extends His Craft 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z But too often the fashion industry equates boundary pushing with creativity, and provocation with inspiration. London Fashion Week Draws the Queen and the Rabble 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z His ideas of the Übermensch and will to power were stripped of their provocation and clowning and rendered as crudely authoritarian. A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The job requirements often include nudity and feigning seduction; provocation is a lever for sales. Male Models Say Mario Testino and Bruce Weber Sexually Exploited Them 2018-01-13T05:00:00Z But is this provocation for the sake of self-gratification, as the old guard would have it? Three Kingdoms: the shape of British theatre to come? 2012-05-16T13:35:29Z But their music never matched the provocation of their presentation. Review: ‘Liberation Day,’ Rocking in Pyongyang With Laibach 2017-10-18T04:00:00Z Was this an egregious act of racial terror, a mindless provocation or a threat to the homeowner, or the neighborhood? Perspective | Can a noose be art? There’s one hanging from a porch in Washington that’s here to challenge your assumptions. 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z So I am excited to tell this story — to celebrate her, to offer conversation, provocation. Jennifer Nettles Had Sung ‘She Used to Be Mine.’ But Not While Crying. 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z “Barack and I were living with an awareness that we ourselves were a provocation.” Review | ‘Becoming’ goes backstage with Michelle Obama, where everyone’s dazzled but the details are nothing new 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z That’s one lesson to be taken from the cinematic provocations of the Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, who, by presenting his characters as exotic specimens under a microscope, dares you to recoil. Movie Review: ‘Paradise: Faith,’ the Second in Ulrich Seidl’s Trilogy 2013-08-22T21:51:23Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian At the curtain call for this show from Belarus Free theatre, a protester shouted that it was "a political provocation". Minsk 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker – review 2012-06-17T17:04:01Z The winning young orator called for a day of listening, rather than reckless provocation and reaction. Dvorak's 'New World' and a new piano concerto for our times at the Hollywood Bowl 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Fashion ought to be about those memorable moments — about dislocation, the unexpected, about weirdness, emotion, provocation, even discomfort — as much as it is about garments, Thom Browne said this week. Weirdness, Emotion, Provocation Mark Paris Men’s Wear 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z It’s the sort of thing that makes Koch such an intriguing writer; his provocations are designed to reveal nothing so much as our own feelings of entitlement. A Dutch Novelist Pokes Holes in His Country’s Pretensions 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z Taken too often as mere provocation, “4’33” ” presents a radical rethinking of the relationships among performer, composer, material, listener and environment. Music Review: ‘Peckinpah Trios’ Continues Music for Contemplation Series 2014-04-08T20:04:25Z The crudely vital camerawork and proudly improvised flow of the Cassavetes movie echoed its era’s bebop strains, and its treatment of touchy subjects at the time, like race relations, was a potent provocation. Theater Review: ?Shadows? at the Collapsable Hole - Review 2011-11-04T22:40:49Z It looks like a minimalist sculpture, a beautiful thing rather than anti-art provocation. Gustav Metzger: 'Destroy, and you create' 2012-11-26T20:00:08Z She withdraws her maternal love after Jaime forces the boy to cut off his flowing blond locks and confounds poor Alejandro by alternating chilly reserve with erotic provocation. ‘The Dance of Reality,’ Jodorowsky’s Comeback Film 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z Paul America chews gum and smirks, evidently in response to off-camera provocations. Art Review: Warhol?s Silent Film Portraits 2010-12-23T22:39:01Z And whatever he does is provocations, which KGB is usually involved in.” Svetlana Alexievich wins Nobel Prize in literature 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z “Dark Disabled Stories” has some of the provocations of his earlier work. Four Rising Theater Stars to Watch This Spring 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z Hakeem’s real power play this week is to make Empire look outdated and less “street” than Lyon Dynasty via public provocation. 'Empire' Recap: A Homecoming Betrayal 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z "I am not so sure that even classic films really live on now – and that means ultimately that maybe film is really an entertainment, or a provocation, just for a specific time." James Spader: the era of classic films is doomed 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Written in 1939, “Iceman” is set in 1912 in a Greenwich Village saloon and rooming house, where patrons await the arrival of their beloved Hickey, who surfaces newly sober and full of provocation. ArtsBeat: Nathan Lane To Star in 'The Iceman Cometh' in Chicago 2011-07-14T21:46:37Z One Jewish advocacy group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, described the statue's placement as "a senseless provocation which insults the memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims". Controversy over Adolf Hitler statue in Warsaw ghetto 2012-12-28T22:18:32Z Mr. Bendell has framed the rejection almost as an advertisement of his paper’s provocation and import. The Darkest Timeline 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z Indeed, some took the New Press’s description of what happened to Mr. Bellesiles as provocation. Michael A. Bellesiles Tries to Live Down Scholarly Scandal 2010-08-03T22:00:00Z This is a hard social muscle to reach, especially in our moment of fear, loathing and deliberate public provocations, but it’s one worth strengthening. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Fellow patron’s persistent cough was not a fine dining experience 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z So when Kate and company proffer a filing for a political super PAC to back Prince’s presidential campaign — a deliberate provocation meant to keep Chuck’s operations in plain sight — Chuck does not bite. ‘Billions’ Season 7, Episode 3 Recap: Confidence Games 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z The group plies a combination of pedagogy and provocation, undertaking educational projects in the Third Ward of Houston while exhibiting sly sculptures and installations at museums, galleries and festivals. Art Review: Drawings by Robert Pruitt at Studio Museum in Harlem 2013-08-08T21:56:25Z After one too many provocations, Ben is arrested and thrown in jail. Michael C. Hall and Sam Shepard Star in ‘Cold in July’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z That sentence becomes the book’s central provocation as the man misunderstands, murders and defiles several people along his life’s blind path. New & Noteworthy 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z It is an exercise in experimental provocation and in pure insolence, while sometimes being horribly funny and fascinating, reviving the spirit of Tod Browning's Freaks and the ice-cold vision of Diane Arbus. Film review: Trash Humpers 2010-06-17T22:35:00Z In discussing Duchamp, Keats does not mention that the original Fountain was lost, and that Duchamp made several versions of it in secret, thus preventing his original provocation becoming fetishised. Forged: Why Fakes Are the Great Art of Our Age by Jonathon Keats – review 2013-06-28T07:00:00Z For the bad boys of Paris Fashion Week, those designers for whom the runway is a path to provocation, there’s a strange impression here that the bloom is off the rose. Fashion Review: Mugler, Gareth Pugh, Balmain ? Review 2012-03-03T13:51:00Z This is important to remember, because your kids are almost guaranteed to react with petulance, defiance and/or guilt provocation. I Want to Cut My Kids Off Financially. Does That Make Me Mean? 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Her cellmates compete to catch cockroaches big enough to ferry cigarettes to prisoners in solitary, and a kind hello in the Chicago cold of the prison yard is provocation enough for another pounding. 'Orange Is the New Black' Recap: Season 2 Begins in a More Menacing World 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z He wrote in Levels of Life about the ire caused by the platitudes and perceived provocations dispensed by friends attempting to steer him through his devastation. Mum has died, dad is weak… our family is falling apart 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The women lean toward flimsy garments that fall to the floor at the slightest provocation. Critic’s Notebook: Distinguishing Sportacus, on ‘LuckyTown,’ From ‘Spartacus’ 2013-01-24T23:39:07Z Each work in the show is a conversation piece of the meatiest variety: a provocation, an act of resistance, a meditation on what is troubling its maker's soul. Resistance in clay: Ceramic artists speak out against Trump, war and more in 'We the People' 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z “This is provocation in an epiphenomenal way: creating spaces of perception, of resonance, of seeing. That is the provocation that is actually interesting.” At Salzburg, Don Giovanni Gets No Pleasure From Seducing 2021-07-22T04:00:00Z I love the stories and provocation that you can find within his art. Hauschka's cultural highlights 2013-03-17T00:05:24Z But such dark provocations shouldn't diminish the obvious subtlety and dexterity of the storytelling here. "Rubicon": Eerie portrait of "Top Secret America" 2010-07-24T23:01:00Z Such provocations were in the spirit of Mr. Moschino’s own cage-rattling — if not always in overt homage — but they were recognizably in Mr. Scott’s own mold. Fashion Review: At Moschino,' a Little More Fun' 2014-02-21T16:34:05Z A clutch of terse provocations from a composer inclined to take the long view. The Best Albums of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z By all means, let’s promote tolerance and kindness; but emphasizing message over, say, daring or provocation, can leave us feeling more lectured to than entertained. ‘The 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films’ Review: Bite-Size Global Tales 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z Just know that act of provocation is not an indemnity policy against the need for structural integrity. 'Mary': Slave drama provokes without much truth 2011-02-15T03:12:57Z Ashley Bickerton, an artist’s artist almost as well known for quitting New York as for his colorful oeuvre of mixed-media provocation and mischief, died on Nov. 30 at his home in Bali, Indonesia. Ashley Bickerton, Whose Art Evoked Humor and Wonder, Dies at 63 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Instead she finds a worthy opponent who parries her provocations with scholarly citations and elegant aphorisms. DVD: Gleason as Tripster, Groucho as God 2011-07-22T05:27:59Z But provocation, not propriety, was the order of the evening. Tyler, the Creator’s profane, energetic, sold-out show at Neumos 2013-04-12T00:26:36Z “I refuse to be afraid of provocation,” the director Paul Verhoeven said. Paul Verhoeven Has Made a Film About a Lesbian Nun. Jesus Is Next. 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Yet no matter how weird or tasteless it becomes, the movie refuses to be dismissed as a juvenile provocation. ‘Butt Boy’ Review: Compulsion as Comic Noir 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z ‘They Are Gone But Here Must I Remain’ Part multimedia lecture, all provocation, this rather muddled show from the Sister Sylvester company is about the power of artists to incite action with images. Theater Listings for Sept. 11-17 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z A 22-year-old with nothing much to lose will charge into battle at almost any provocation. Why Bob Dylan didn't make a fuss in China 2011-04-09T23:37:00Z Every so often, Bowien’s co-author and friend, Chris Ying, surfaces to interrupt the story, probing the chef and his friends with questions and provocations, giving the enterprise a kind of self-awareness. Chinese Food and the Joy of Inauthentic Cooking 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z “They’re not pleasant arrangements of shapes and colors on a canvas. They are provocations, some of them: provocations to actually thinking what art might be.” Conceptual Art’s Long Shadow 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z King's attorneys say he was waiting to be picked up by family outside one of the terminals at Bush Intercontinental Airport on March 11 when three of LaBelle's bodyguards attacked him without provocation. R&B diva LaBelle files countersuit in beating case 2011-06-28T22:02:23Z But these are less cacophonous provocations than metaphors for freedom; even at its strangest, the music has an effect that’s not otherworldly but profoundly human. Music Review: Venturing Into Noise in Search of Melody 2014-02-20T23:23:46Z The local teenagers might as well be from “Bye Bye Birdie” — and they evolve from antagonists to allies with the scantest provocation. ‘The Prom’ Review: Bringing Jazz Hands to the Heartland 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The title itself is a provocation: shifting like a holograph, arch to earnest, depending on the angle from which you look. The House That Mouse Built 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z My guess is it was a clever provocation. | Fashion Review: Exit Paris, Winking 2011-03-10T23:42:03Z I pity your wife if she is routinely subjected to your silly provocations. I’m Invited to the Wedding, Sort Of 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Artistic director David Lan said: "Trash Cuisine is all we expect from BFT – provocation, daring and unforgettable theatre." Belarus Free Theatre to bring battle against death penalty to UK 2013-03-27T12:40:58Z Here’s what you do: Apologize to your parents for trying to hurt them with a provocation. I Lied to My Parents. How Do I Get Them to Believe the Truth Now? 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z But “Dietland” uses Ms. Nash’s body as a provocation and not as a punch line or punching bag. ‘Dietland’ is Violent, Disruptive and Surreal. And Funny. 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z But if what Rhoades wanted was a fatwa, he didn’t get it—had he lived into the age of social media, his provocations would have likely found an answering voice. An L.A. Artist Who Anticipated Our Trumpian Moment 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Yet Jackson quickly moves beyond the obvious provocation of this ripped-from-the-headlines setup. A New Novel Asks, What Is More Powerful, a Microphone or a Gun? 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z He became known for aggressive, fast-paced presentations that involved political provocation, disrobing, profanity and hand-held signs, as well as humor. Hudson, Gallerist and Nurturer of Artists, Dies at 63 2014-02-17T04:37:35Z Winterbottom consciously turns the provocation dial up to 11, to 12, to 13 and beyond by making the victim actually appear to be grateful and submissive. Film review: The Killer Inside Me 2010-06-03T21:08:00Z Most importantly, the song set a tone for this concert, the opening night of Drake’s “Summer Sixteen” tour: pugnacity, provocation, sneering. Review: Drake Opens Tour in Austin, Rapping, Singing and Sneering 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Now, I realize that we live in politically volatile times, but as provocations go, “The best book on President Lincoln I have ever read” is not exactly “Vive la révolution!” Perspective | Did Facebook ‘cancel Abe Lincoln’? The truth is complicated — and alarming. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z This palace is less Magic Kingdom and more King’s Landing, a place where producers use tricks, provocations and copious alcohol to engineer drama and steer aspirants into the requisite roles of “wifey” and “villain.” Review: In UnREAL, Art Imitates Life Imitating Life 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z It sustained and delivered delight and provocation in spite of the surrounding crisis, it gave people looking for a house something that approximates home. America Has a Problem and Beyoncé Ain’t It 2022-07-30T04:00:00Z She was glad to know that the work’s provocations were working. What Happened After Mexico’s Greatest Architect Was Turned Into a Diamond 2017-05-21T04:00:00Z “Kipnis launches provocations with the frequency of a tennis ball machine.” 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-17T05:00:00Z So someone with a confused mind might well find provocations, resonances, that made him choose this of all works of art to blast with a shotgun. Rothko vandalism: why are the greatest works attacked? 2012-10-08T12:42:35Z But had he gunned for outrage, he would probably have fallen short; by now Mr. Trump’s reign is itself the provocation. Andres Serrano Lets Objects Do the Talking 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z And she recounts their shock at the “ingratitude” of Judge, who fled “without any provocation,” the president wrote. In Search of the Slave Who Defied George Washington 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Into this collection of trophies, hard won and at immense cost, Paine’s “Bad Lawn” brought a contemporary-art sense of irreverence and provocation. Perspective | Is Crystal Bridges, in rural Arkansas, the most woke museum in America? 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z They connect with newcomers, while also leaving room for mystery and provocation. Robert Carsen Is Opera’s Most Reliably Excellent Director 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z The title was a provocation, he said: To him, it meant, “Yeah, we’re coming.” Beyond the Stereotypes, a New View of Indian Music 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z The film is so stuffed with incident, opinion and hairpin tonal shifts that it’s hard to fully parse in one sitting; online might well be the best place to unpack its myriad provocations. Black History Month: the best movies to watch in February 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z But the overreaction to O’Connor was not just about whether she was right or wrong; it was about the kinds of provocations we accept from women in music. Sinead O’Connor Remembers Things Differently 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z “At the slightest provocation, I will play it,” he said. Pianist Marc-André Hamelin fills in for Lang Lang in Seattle Symphony series 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z It is called "Popsicle Drips", a title that undercuts the potentially worrying nature of the liquid smear, but does little to dispel the lingering sense of provocation. Through a lens darkly 2010-06-19T23:05:00Z There was very little posturing or provocation or wackiness in it. Music Review: Wayne Horvitz and Royal Room Collective at the Stone 2013-05-22T21:46:01Z Norris's elegantly structured play nails marital tensions as much as it does racial disharmony in an evening of ebullient provocation. Clybourne Park ? review 2011-02-09T18:34:00Z Or was it a reasonable response following months of Iranian provocations? We’re living in the bizarre world that Flaubert envisioned 2020-01-20T05:00:00Z The smaller ones celebrate homegrown talent — mostly in the "alternative comedy" vein that prizes weird wit and provocation. A stand-up roundup: Comedy clubs in Seattle and on the Eastside 2010-03-18T20:59:00Z Warlikowski approaches the opera with shocking, if disappointing, restraint for a director who typically layers his productions with provocations. Opera Roars Back With Dueling Wagner Premieres 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z Though Brown is often described as a polarizing figure, the singer commands an ultra-devoted fan base, one whose allegiance he sometimes seems eager to test with each new provocation. At the Forum, a troubling image of Chris Brown 2015-03-09T04:00:00Z “And then,” he added, his voice rising without warning or provocation, “at times not being able to see the trees for the forest.” James Spader Prepares for ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron’ 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z In “Stage: The Culinary Internship,” the menu is described as “a sequence of provocations.” ‘Stage: The Culinary Internship’ Review: Apprentices With Eclectic Appetites 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z A tendency towards sexual provocation brought Franco into conflict with the Spanish censors, and he was forced to look further afield for financing. Jesús Franco: creator of erotic horrors who had a unique cinematic vision 2013-04-04T16:20:49Z This is Ms. Lohan at her most natural, collapsing at the slightest provocation. Television Review: Following Lindsay Lohan After Her Latest Rehab 2014-03-10T21:29:04Z Except for an ineffectual priest and an imam, whose houses of worship sit side by side, those men are hotheaded bumpkins who profess brotherhood until the tiniest provocation incites them to blind fury. Movie Review: ?Where Do We Go Now?,? From Nadine Labaki 2012-05-10T23:24:34Z Anyone caught with a bootlegged copy of the film was allegedly charged with “a grave provocation against the development of the state,” which could carry a prison sentence of up to five years. Strike Up the Banned: 5 Films That Sparked International Incidents 2014-06-27T04:00:00Z Was it a planned act of deliberate provocation? Nipples invade the Super Bowl! 2014-02-03T15:52:00Z Jennifer M. Kroot’s documentary “It Came From Kuchar” provides generous clips of these and later films, enough to give a flavor of the brothers’ blend of camp, melodrama, horror, psychological exploration and sexual provocation. | 'It Came From Kuchar': The Kuchars, Twins Who Defied Film Convention 2010-04-09T03:22:00Z The Dani also talk, murmur and yell, but not everything they say is translated, which is another provocation. ‘Expedition Content’ Review: Anthropological Maneuvers in the Dark 2022-01-05T05:00:00Z Neon words glowed and flashed feminist incantations and provocations from the rafters. Perspective | Paris Fashion Week begins with coronavirus anxiety — plus latex, feminism and flashing neon lights 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z It’s an extraordinarily effective act of artistic trolling, a self-consciously brazen provocation that also covers its tracks with winkingly transparent gestures. “Dragged Across Concrete,” Reviewed: A Stylish, Repugnant Crime Thriller Starring Mel Gibson 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Equally striking was Curtis’s trademark style, all logical provocations and uncanny juxtapositions; it’s historical documentary as polemical art installation. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z And in a year in which the conversation about Hollywood’s systemic problems with diversity was far louder than the conversation about the quality of its product, this was a wise choice and a knowing provocation. ‘Fight the Power’ Roars Back to Relevance at the Oscars 2016-02-29T05:00:00Z Jan and Nina own a marketing company whose new client is a politician who wants to campaign on provocation and fear. ‘Human Factors’ Review: Paranoia is the Family Business 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z By their nature, these sorts of shows are tonics and provocations, suggestive rather than definitive, shy on eye candy, requiring comfortable shoes and lots of squinting at wall texts. In ‘By the People,’ Designing for the Underserved and Overlooked 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z This means Rasmussen fails to follow through on his most interesting provocation: Is tenderness possible in a brutal world? New Fiction Traces the Anguish of Lost Young Men 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z The ruptures are typically intentional provocations, but not always: The period of deep trauma following the 2007 death of his mother remains one of Mr. West’s most vital, influential and least understood times. Kanye West’s Year of Breaking Bad 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z West, who is also a writer on “Shrill,” is used to seeing even her most amicable work treated as a provocation. Aidy Bryant Found Her Confidence on ‘S.N.L.’ On ‘Shrill’ She Found Herself. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z Posting on Twitter in German, the foreign minister, Heiko Maas, wrote: “Anti-Semitic provocations do not deserve awards, they are simply disgusting.” Fury in Germany as Rap Duo With Anti-Jewish Lyrics Gets Award 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z "The Burkini is a political act, a militant act, a provocation. Women who wear it are testing the Republic," Sarkozy told the magazine in comments to be published on Friday. French PM defends burkini ban but some in cabinet wary 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Getting kicked off Twitter hardly stopped Yiannopoulos in his tracks, but it did deny him a major platform for his provocations. Milo Yiannopoulos’s Cynical Book Deal 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z The poster is a classic Guerrilla Girls provocation, showing a nude woman from behind, lounging on a sofa, with an oversize gorilla head. A free-wheeling medium for a free-wheeling country 2016-07-19T04:00:00Z As the apostle of publicity for publicity’s sake, Trump has adopted the practices of reality TV, building his reputation on insults, humiliation and a discourse of provocation and hate. Are the politics of “incivility” paving the road to an American fascism? Part 1 of 2 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Her endlessly changing vocabulary was taken as a provocation. Meryl Streep, Diane Lane and Others on the Legacy of Elizabeth Swados 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The channel claims that the decision is one deliberately meant "as a provocation to all our viewers in the very real sense of the word". Is Channel 4 right to broadcast the Muslim call to prayer during Ramadan? 2013-07-02T13:30:00Z Their great moments always seem to have happened yesterday, when the perfect audience met the perfect provocation to produce a moment that can never be repeated. Tino Sehgal has created a you-had-to-be-there moment at Tate Modern 2012-07-24T12:56:01Z In spite of the news media attention generated by his books and his provocations, Mr. Houellebecq has been an outsider in France’s cozy, mandarin literary world. Michel Houellebecq, Casually Provocative 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z Here’s a provocation: “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is the best production of a play this season — maybe in several seasons. Loving and Hating the Broadway Season: Our Critics Could Have Argued All Night 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z But, at moments when Western societies consider themselves under attack, the discourse is quickly dominated by an ahistorical fantasy of long-suffering serenity and fortitude in the face of provocation. Unmournable Bodies 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The music was from The Fall, the British post-punk band.Covering up the body is hardly a source of provocation for Mr. Jacobs. On the Runway Blog: Marc Jacobs: Sex Talk in a Straight Package 2012-09-11T03:30:21Z To understand the meaning and depth of her provocation requires learning something about the contexts she works in, but that knowledge is well worth seeking out. Art in Review: Arahmaiani: ‘Fertility of the Mind’ 2014-01-30T21:42:44Z A brisk, smart provocation of a monologue, it’s about race and identity in American culture, and about the tantalizing impulse to reach across the chasm to the hard-core bigots among us. Review: ‘Just for Us’ Reaches Across the Chasm 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z A provocation in sound, as in past collaborations between Mr. Cline and other guitarists, like Thurston Moore. Albums From Rick Ross and Keith Jarrett 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z "This was an unprovoked attack on a woman, with no provocation, by a man," Stark told Reuters. No assault charges against actor Matthew Fox: city 2011-09-18T02:16:27Z “The Epic,” the tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington’s big debut on the national stage three years ago, worked partly because it functioned as a provocation — an act of extravagant ambition. Kamasi Washington, Still in an Epic Mind-Set on ‘Heaven and Earth’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z This year, instead of supplying a provocation on screen, he turned his news conference into a sideshow, a freakishly self-destructive move. Critic?s Notebook: A Provocateur Steals Cannes Spotlight 2011-05-19T21:38:11Z "Every female singer must compete in an infinite game of provocation," she writes. Why rapper Ana Tijoux won't be a sex object for her music 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z When he joins the company of trappers, as their guide, he brings their son, Hawk, with him and protects him against the trappers’ racist threats and provocations. The Suffocating Solemnity of “The Revenant” 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z It’s not Parker’s intent to announce this provocation. Five Minutes That Will Make You Love Avant-Garde Jazz 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Before watching "Swarm," I would have politely suggested that the compulsion to describe anything that doesn't fit neatly into a box as "a provocation" was a cop-out. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z I don't want peace and quiet, I want a certain sense of provocation, certainly of challenge. A life in writing: Andr? Brink 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z She said her Facebook page was hacked into as part of a campaign of "provocations". Bolshoi ballerina afraid to return to Russia: Newspaper 2013-01-30T17:40:57Z Daniels’s strength as a director lies less in his taste for histrionics and provocation than in his skill at observing quieter moments. ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Singing for Her Life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z "One is electrified by the artist's political provocations, and the other by the frisson of sexual mystery." Warhol, Lichtenstein, Bacon head to auction in NY 2012-05-09T16:07:12Z According to a rather exhaustive “brief history of trolls” at The Daily Dot, the term is a relatively new turn of phrase for annoying provocation of several different stripes. Chuck D, the N-word and the Problem With Trolling 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z In an age when even the slightest provocation can summon the Internet's inexhaustible outrage, that's often just fine. Celebrities quick to apologize for mistakes but are they sorry? 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z It’s a remarkably extended fusillade of aphoristic provocation and insight, inspired in part by the death of his son. ‘The Glorious American Essay,’ From Benjamin Franklin to David Foster Wallace 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z Her newest provocation is the idea that trauma-based language around affairs is limiting. First Comes Sex Talk With These Renegades of Couples Therapy 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z Twitter-led typhoons of internet media hysteria, stirred by the slightest provocation, strike hard and dissipate quickly. Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All – review 2013-07-02T18:29:27Z After reading gushy online reviews of Pitbull Man, she bought a case of it to add, mostly as a cheeky provocation. What Perfume Are You Wearing? Now You Never Have to Tell 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z He lets Mr. Putin speak, occasionally chiming in to buttress points about American provocations or Russian suffering. Oliver Stone Lets Vladimir Putin Talk 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The title of Gary Ferrar’s show is both a provocation and a reassurance: If everything you see didn’t depend on some form of illusion, you’d wonder just what superpowers this man possesses. 7 Things to Do With Your Kids in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z It is deaf to irony, metaphor, satire, allegory, provocation, ambiguity, contrariness. Salman Rushdie not first novelist to suffer assassination attempt by someone who hadn’t read book 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z Is provocation a chant and a drum, or is provocation a flat smile and a decision not to move? Perspective | The Covington students and the calculated art of making people uncomfortable 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z One Jewish group, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, this week condemned the work's placement in the former ghetto as "a senseless provocation which insults the memory of the Nazis' Jewish victims." Praying Hitler in Warsaw ghetto sparks emotion 2012-12-28T14:36:08Z Others have brought up reactive violence, a type of aggression triggered by a prolonged provocation or perceived threat. Michelle Branch, Patrick Carney and the nuances of how we talk about abuse 2022-08-16T04:00:00Z The title is more provocation than statement of fact, but it is not entirely untrue. The World Needs Female Rock Critics 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z This little provocation would, in my view, be more likely to land the teacher in a psychiatric ward than a courtroom. | 'Abraham Lincoln?s Big, Gay Dance Party': Chris Smith Directs a Play More or Less About Lincoln 2010-08-12T03:30:00Z Ms. Ivekovic also named her golden lady for the martyred Marxist Rosa Luxemburg, quite a provocation for one of Europe’s banking capitals. Art and Design: Sanja Ivekovic, Croatia?s Monumental Provocateur 2011-12-25T05:07:04Z Like a professor in the Department of Funk, Soul, and Pop Studies, he needs little provocation to provide “adult education” on everything from the state of music commerce to conflicts over cultural appropriation. Daryl Hall explains it all to Salon: “Record company executives are the most backward bunch of idiots I’ve ever seen” 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z I believe in good provocations that can start something, but this one was completely wrong. Lars von Trier: "I don't want to be an adult" 2011-05-21T18:22:00Z Maybe it is a fast-fashion spoof of streetwear provocation: How could you really care about paying twelve times as much for Off-White, or whatever? Interrogating Melania Trump’s Statement Jacket and its Fast-Fashion Fascism 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z Now, it seems to be a provocation on the part of certain Muslims. Flying While Muslim: A Civil Rights Advocate on Travel Right Now 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Swallow your doubts: There’s conviction in everything he plays, and often a sense of raffish provocation. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Then, in the summer of 1931, at age twenty, he visited North Africa with his friend Aaron Copland, following a provocation from Gertrude Stein. The Sheltering Sound: Paul Bowles’s Attempt to Save Moroccan Music 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z The exhibition’s curatorial approach — one of provocation rather than explanation — relies heavily on technology to gather visitor reaction and incorporate it into the experience. ‘Futures’ comes alive in the Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z Or you could look at the film’s riot of racial signifiers — the musical and pop-cultural references as well as the demographics of the setting — as a form of trolling, a coy, self-disavowing provocation. Review: A ‘Good Time’ Was Not Had by This Critic 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z The standard answer is that he was trying to whip up a provocation and thereby increase his box-office receipts. The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z It goes for provocation, yes, but it hasn’t done the work to earn it. ‘The Idol’ Season 1, Episode 3 Recap: Tedros Has Notes 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z A decade later, I no longer remember his provocation, but I do remember the response I decided on, five minutes after the fact: “That’s not what your mother said last night.” The Much-Needed Humor of the Women’s March 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z In both genres, thousands of people get hacked to pieces, often without provocation. Valhalla Rising v Clash of the Titans: there will be blood 2010-03-18T22:05:00Z Their desire to be free of him is the greatest provocation of all, one that warrants a campaign of stalking, harassment and worse. Review: In ‘Custody,’ a Father Terrorizes His Family 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z The problem, of course, is that the line between good and bad provocation is both thin and subjective. Perspective | Was our magazine cover about guns inflammatory? We talked to a reader who hated it. 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z “Judas,” a new novel by Amos Oz, is a paradox of stillness and provocation. In the novel ‘Judas,’ Amos Oz wrestles with Jewish attitudes toward Jesus 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Most tech billionaires can’t engage in online provocation, because it would risk hurting their businesses. How Elon Musk became a new kind of celebrity 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z Chalk up the great popularity of “Look Who’s Back” to its author’s basic act of provocation and to the highly polished sitcom sensibility that works so well here. Review: In ‘Look Who’s Back,’ Hitler Returns and He’s Amusing 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z With no provocation at all, he walked me down some more filthy corridors and we ended up in his headquarters where I was booked as a truant. Revealing and Obscuring Myself on the Streets of New York 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z Officials in the ex-Soviet state denied the July 4 incident until Lukashenko called a meeting last week to scold authorities for allowing such a “provocation.” Weird news: Teddy bears invade Belarus 2012-08-01T20:55:00Z He did not indicate whether he thought the provocation was on the part of protesters or police. Anti-war protesters rally in Grant Park 2012-05-20T17:27:00Z Amid its freewheeling aesthetic twists and intellectual provocations, the astounding humor of “The Love Witch” often ascends to intentional hysteria. The State of Independent Film in 2016 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z It's entertaining in a cheerfully ridiculous way, though Cage fans will be disappointed that he does not really lose his rag, despite some serious provocation from the Lord of Darkness. Season of the Witch ? review 2011-01-06T22:41:00Z He often confessed that his excruciatingly cruel Funny Games was intended as a deliberate piece of provocation and if you endured the whole film, it was because you needed to be taught a lesson. Ben Lee: I didn't expect the real Michael Haneke to be a goofball 2013-03-14T16:59:01Z But using forced gender-reassignment surgery as a major plot hinge for his latest movie, “The Assignment,” is arguably a miscalculated provocation. Review: Seeking Revenge for ‘The Assignment’ She Didn’t Want 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z And not only because each was both a sop and a deliberate provocation, playing to this era’s hunger for quantification of all things yet intended to spark dissent and debate. What’s in a List? Two Critics on Theater’s Special Relationship 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z Mother starts wildly overreacting to the tiniest provocation, then murders her partner. Ridley Scott on sci-fi epic Raised By Wolves: 'Watch it with three bottles of wine!' 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Such insight and provocation is otherwise rare in “Chicken & Biscuits.” Review: In ‘Chicken & Biscuits,’ a Sweet but Dated Comedic Recipe 2021-10-10T04:00:00Z “Yours is an act of courage that borders on provocation,” Mr. Fo told the Swedish Academy. Dario Fo, Nobel-Winning Italian Playwright, Dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The military dustup and Monsoon's insistence on taking up space in hostile partisan territory qualify as provocations. With "Swarm," two "Atlanta" collaborators kick the beehive of toxic fandom 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Visitors to St Ives can enjoy the works of British abstract artists who based themselves in the area, along with contemporary art that offers challenge and provocation among the ice-creams. Art and culture at the British seaside 2011-08-03T11:25:26Z David Mamet’s 2012 provocation is at its heart an extended ideological dialectic, with a deliberately oblique outcome. 'Anarchist's' artful words don't make satisfying drama 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z The hidden meanings contained within Fountain don't end in Duchamp's wordplay and provocation. Putting modern art on the map 2012-08-24T20:35:17Z Mr. Rock rocketed to fame in the next decade with virtuosic specials that were full of intellectual provocations that would probably cause more controversy today when the politics of comedy are more scrutinized. In Chris Rock’s New Special, a Humbler Master at Work 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z Monsters are scary, partly because you’re afraid you might become one yourself given the right provocation. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Monsters and Ghosts 2013-07-11T15:00:18Z His words are provocations to argue, disagree and think. 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z In Mr. West’s telling, these provocations demonstrate a willingness to think and say something that others wouldn’t dare. The Battle for Kanye West Is Happening in Real Time 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z As an act of psychological and pop-cultural provocation, the album is both extreme and effective. CeeLo’s Strange New TV-Theme-Song Album 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z This is provocative writing, but provocation is far from being Lawrence's aim. Rereading: The Rainbow by DH Lawrence 2011-03-19T00:06:22Z That dynamic has remained part of popular music ever since, though it has often been expressed just by teasing implication or as an act of provocation for commercial gain. The New Angry Young Men: Rockers Who Rail Against ‘Toxic Masculinity’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z "This isn't meant as a provocation, but as an opening," the designer told ANSA, saying her choice to show a burkini was meant as a sign of respect for Islamic culture. Young stars of social media fill Dolce&Gabbana front row 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z From his early days designing clothes featuring profanities drawn in big, bold letters, to his button-pushing music videos and high-profile social media beefs, he knows that provocation will rack up the “likes.” The saga of Tekashi 6ix9ine: inside the story of a 'supervillain' rapper 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z It's partly a response to the provocation of the Royal Court, which is primarily a writer's theatre, and partly because I simply follow my own taste. Young Vic at 40: the Young and the restless: 2010-10-19T20:31:00Z The extremist Argentine-French filmmaker Gaspar Noé’s most recent effort is his gentlest, though only because he’s best known for provocations like “Irreversible,” “Enter the Void” and “Climax.” ‘Stars at Noon,’ ‘Vortex’ and More of This Year’s Streaming Gems 2022-12-20T05:00:00Z His fascination with the drone — as a foundation, as a provocation, as something to get lost in — has been one recurring motif. Critic’s Notebook: Two John Cale Programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-01-20T23:06:32Z A tendency to ignore provocations from groups such as the Black Panthers might also be useful. ArtsBeat: Remembering Those Radical Chic Evenings 2011-03-16T20:45:38Z His tantrums, mild as they are, usually stem from some provocation placing them not so far past reasonable. Hollywood needs to stop letting stars author their own biopics | Charles Bramesco 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Clark, 52, declined to say whether her use of a cloth printed with the battle flag to clean the gallery floor was an act of provocation, simply noting that the cloth was commercially available. Rediscovering the Confederate Flag of Truce 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z You, readers, get to enjoy a bit of beauty and/or provocation to move you into the weekend. Tiny art show: Photographer Victoria Bjorklund 2011-09-16T15:01:04Z Barriers are what turn Mr. Zahedi on: by turns puckish and ornery, a wide-eyed stranger in a strange land, he enlists nervously accommodating residents as actors in his impish provocations. | 'the Sheik and I': ‘The Sheik and I,’ Directed by Caveh Zahedi 2012-12-07T02:52:56Z In this movie, it earns him a breathtakingly vicious newspaper review – a sneering notice that claims Gainsbourg is bringing "antisemitism" upon himself with his provocations. Film review: Gainsbourg (Vie H?ro?que) 2010-07-29T21:25:00Z "Parked Outside" thrust and crunched as Dulli loaded up on snide sarcasm, digging in his heels at the sight of chaos and provocation. Afghan Whigs uncompromising at Metro 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z It is an incendiary provocation and the Globes’ musical/comedy section is almost the only way that the mainstream awards season is going to reward it. Golden Globes 2018: who will win – and who should win – the film categories 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z In any other crime we take account of provocation and contributory factors. Is rape legitimate if she dresses provocatively? One author argues yes 2013-05-28T15:48:00Z Obviously it's cooler to think that provocation is, flat-out, worth the effort. "Dexter" finally goes too far 2009-12-14T20:15:00Z But also because in this music there is nothing else to hear — no big ideas, no interruptions, no provocations. Wu-Tang Clan and AC/DC Release Albums 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z It takes virtually no provocation for me to roll up my left sleeve and show off the lasting results of early 1970s third world surgery. Television Review: ‘I Was Impaled’ on Discovery Fit & Health 2012-09-07T23:49:43Z It’s worth noting that the provocations that the Kings have created on “The Good Fight” have only been allowed to air in the limited space of CBS All Access. CBS Censors “The Good Fight” for a Musical Short About China 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z All three of these videos are designed as provocations of a sort, thinkpiece-bait event releases designed to cut through online clutter. For Innovation at the Grammys, Look at the Best Music Video Category 2019-01-30T05:00:00Z This collection of all 23 Can singles provides, instead, thumbnails of its larger pictures: systematic strategies, experiments with sound, funk beats, provocations, lamentations, jokes. Blasts From the Past From the Rolling Stones, D’Angelo, Neil Young and Can 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z They didn’t have much to project, as a great deal of the dialogue, and thus context and relevance and provocation, of “Abduction” had been reduced to a some silly remarks and plenty of slapstick. Abducting Mozart's 'Abduction From the Seragilo' to another time 2017-01-29T05:00:00Z The contemporary, post-Sontagian polemics adopt a posture of provocation in faintly echoing such forebears, but they are, in their hearts, pluralistic, and in fact suggest only a slight revision in perspective. Against “Against [X]” 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z His clownish, abstract, cartoonish and grotesque works reflected his bent for provocation. M.T. Liggett, 86, Folk Artist and Provocateur, Is Dead 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z And while Houellebecq has always been a polarizing figure — admired for his provocations, disdained for his crudeness — he has turned out to be a writer of unusual prescience. A French Novelist Imagined Sexual Dystopia. Now It’s Arrived. 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z For De Palma fans, it’s the most problematic fave in a career full of them, a provocation both deliberate and accidental, reflecting and challenging the cultural norms at the time. Dressed to Kill at 40: Brian De Palma's thrilling yet problematic shocker 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Then, however, another friend flagged the actual provocation. Our Autofiction Fixation 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z His loving shots of anonymous, lifeless women appear tame compared to current multiplex provocations, until we consider the creep factor of what he can’t show but can only brag about: his fans. | 'S&Man': Shots From the Underground 2010-10-01T04:16:00Z Feltrinelli, which published much of his work, hailed him as a "stubborn and intelligent critical conscience of our time, a craftsman of language and formidable poet of provocation and play." Edoardo Sanguineti, Italian poet, 79, dies 2010-05-18T20:16:00Z “I never start to direct by thinking about making a provocation to the audience,” she added. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z Each year the monks choose a different theme for the nativity scene as part of what they call a “provocation” to underscore the need for peace, he said. Franciscan monks put baby Jesus on bed of bullets to press for peace 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z In her 1984 autobiography, “My China Years,” Ms. Snow wrote: “Peking is the last stronghold of the good old tradition of entertaining on the least provocation.” Pursuits: A Mystery Endures in Beijing’s Old Legation Quarter 2014-05-02T18:00:05Z “Yes, but” because I felt sharpened by it, grateful for its provocations. Lauren Oyler’s ‘Fake Accounts’ Captures the Relentlessness of Online Life 2021-01-26T05:00:00Z This year his provocation was less intentional but had the same result. Highs and lows 2011-05-23T10:51:12Z But the simple act of publishing images of the protests that convulsed Beijing in the spring of 1989 is likely to be viewed as a provocation by the hard-liners who currently rule China. Tiananmen Square ‘Negatives’: An Art Book or a Protest? 2015-02-23T05:00:00Z They decided it would be interesting to make "a provocation, a prototype", something that might generate ideas that could be applied to other examples of this widespread form of modern dereliction, the ex-garage. Britain's best young architects 2011-01-09T00:04:06Z That he has achieved so much so rapidly is its own provocation, one amplified by “Figures of Speech.” Can Virgil Abloh Fit in a Museum? 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z The great playwrights provoke us not for provocation’s sake, but to wake us up. In defense of anger: A critic's appeal to playwrights to let their tempers fly 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z “I never want to be provocative just for the sake of provocation,” said Madonna, insisting that the butterflies and centipedes she gives birth to in the video mean something. Madonna and Beeple Collaborate on NFT Project 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z Perhaps this provocation masks some veiled anger somewhere along the line. Ask Molly Ringwald: my friend made a sexual comment about my wife 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Despite his splattery provocations, Roth never really fit the description of the depraved enfant terrible. Eli Roth: ‘I miss films where you think the makers were insane’ 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z What a lot of people miss, they both think, is Gang of Four's sense of humour and provocation. Gang of Four: Old punks, new Content 2011-01-20T23:00:01Z At some points solo riffs were passed back and forth between the players like friendly provocations. Review: Roam the Spectrum With Tyshawn Sorey 2019-03-29T04:00:00Z As ever, Ms. Waldman is wielding her powers of provocation to goad us into an uncomfortable but necessary conversation. Review: ‘A Really Good Day,’ Ayelet Waldman’s Better Living Through LSD 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z The expletive smack in the middle of the title of Aaron Posner’s “sort of” adaptation of “The Seagull” is not there for decoration, or even provocation. Review: ‘Stupid _____ Bird’ Is Chekhov for the 21st Century 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Art and activism merge in this fascinating inside portrait of China's best known artist, which conveys both the roots of Ai's provocations and the authorities' paranoid responses to them. This week's new films 2012-08-10T23:05:23Z He may have also argued that provocation was a factor. Why did Justin Lee Collins get such a lenient sentence? 2012-10-10T15:56:16Z These moments suggest a thinking failure of his own: a failure to examine the inapt moral equivalences and disguised elitism inherent in his brand of provocation. Review: Michael Moore, Bragging on Broadway, in ‘The Terms of My Surrender’ 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Rather, he frames it as a brilliant provocation, a metatheatrical challenge to quaintly limited thinking. Review: A Darkly Satirical Glimpse Into Life ‘Off Broadway’ 2021-06-25T04:00:00Z First, it has to be said, is the amateurism of the performance itself: an awful, attention-hustling racket, musically horrible, lyrically adolescent; poetry-free provocation. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer – review 2013-06-13T11:02:19Z But she acknowledged that in the current political climate the show’s title is a provocation — or, perhaps, an invitation. Black Designers in Focus at Fashion Institute of Technology 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z As countless people will testify, he would erupt into a rage for the tiniest provocation. Hunter S. Thompson’s son shocker: “Hunter was surprised and pleased that I actually grew up apparently sane” 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z That said, as a provocation and as a work of art, the banana is relatively weak. Perspective | The Art Basel banana was art, and the peals of outrage were one layer of it 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Or a dangerous provocation that could be deadly for impressionable and vulnerable youth? How 13 Reasons Why continues to turn teenage pain into a soap opera 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z There are few online experiences more dispiriting, more arduously futile, than the downward scroll into the netherworld of half-assed provocations and inanities that exists beneath the typical opinion piece or YouTube video. It’s Comments All the Way Down 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z Whatever she professed to think of it, everything she was to write from then on owes if not debts of influence then debts of provocation to James Joyce. The Unsaid: The Silence of Virginia Woolf 2014-11-10T05:00:00Z Mr. McLaren, a former art student, found an outlet for his ideas about fashion, music and social provocation in the inchoate rock ’n’ roll scene of London in the early 1970s. Malcolm McLaren, Seminal Punk Figure, Dies at 64 2010-04-08T23:26:00Z He denied the special edition was an act of provocation. Muhammad cartoons: magazine to publish illustrated biography of prophet 2012-12-30T15:54:02Z His greatest gift was for staging radical political provocations, like dropping loose bills from the gallery of the New York Stock Exchange to the crowded floor below. | 'Abbie': The Life and Passions of an American Activist 2011-01-12T22:05:09Z And he was easily impressed, his large green eyes popping anime-wide at the slightest provocation. Modern Love: Encouraging a Partner to Find His Voice - Modern Love 2012-10-28T04:01:21Z Lucy did dig a deep hole for herself, quite self-destructive, but her provocation is: Try me. Film: At Cannes, Women With Diverse Visions 2011-05-17T11:30:06Z From anyone else it would seem like a rip-off, but from her, it’s a provocation, a dare. Spring Performance: Music : Pop Sirens Flirt With Today And Yesterday 2011-02-20T02:00:59Z Ms. Spears’s albums in the 2000s, like “Blackout” and “Femme Fatale,” showed that she and her advisers know something about the dynamics of celebrity and media, as she toyed with provocation and selective revelation. In ‘Glory,’ Britney Spears Promises Pleasure, but Offers Nothing Personal 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The piano was indeed silent, but the Maverick audience had plenty to listen to, or would have if its members weren’t busy being scandalized by what some regarded as a provocation. John Cage Recital? Take the A Train 2012-08-08T15:24:32Z He was offering, with some provocation, a defense of his latest character — a brilliant, mercurial midcentury couture designer at the center of Paul Thomas Anderson’s lush new psychosexual drama “Phantom Thread.” Daniel Day-Lewis and Paul Thomas Anderson on How They Created ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z But in his early, vigorously cartoonish paintings of rudimentary symbols and stick figures he showed a precocious understanding of painting as avant-gardist provocation. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Her as-yet untitled project will be “a provocation with music about where the black female body sits in our imaginations as Americans.” Perspective | This prestigious New York theater has an unlikely season coming. All of the titles are TBA. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z “But we need to differentiate between art as a stylistic device, or a form of provocation that only serves to destroy and ostracize others.” Fury in Germany as Rap Duo With Anti-Jewish Lyrics Gets Award 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z And to him, that was really provocation for the sake of it. Rising design star: Naz Sahin 2012-05-17T21:42:00Z It can be easy to look back on Rampling’s career as a series of provocations. Charlotte Rampling: ‘I’ve got a very restless character. It’s a beast’ 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Some of his provocations, like a paranoid riff on vaccinations, seem less than fully formed; and the show loses its comic zest in some of his fogeyish umbrage over sensitivity to transgender people. In Netflix Specials, Dave Chappelle Challenges His Audience 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z From the start of the sketch, her gender was beside the point, neither provocation nor distraction. Why Melissa McCarthy Made a Great Sean Spicer 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Tonally, it seemed to be going for the subversive wit of “Mean Girls” but instead landed closer to “Family Guy” — empty, scattershot provocation for its own sake. Is Netflix’s ‘Insatiable’ as Offensive as It Looks? Let’s Discuss 2018-08-09T04:00:00Z A provocation is a kind of fast boring. The boring journey of Matt Yglesias 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z In his soft-spoken delivery, he presents confessions of embarrassing thoughts, transgressions that are not cheap provocations so much as the activity of a free and fearless mind. 5 Stand-Up Specials to Stream This Week 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z He went there all right: the outcome was brazenly, even ecstatically, grotesque, and a milestone of multiplex provocation. Cannibalism, bad dates and ice skating: the best movie moments of 2017 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z In the past half-century, directors have tried to shake up the art form simply by recasting standard works as provocations. Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z As preparations for the Eurovision Song Contest moved into higher gear in Kiev on Friday, last year's winner urged her fellow Ukrainians not to allow any provocations from Russia to spoil the event. Don't let Russia spoil Eurovision, 2016 winner tells fellow Ukrainians 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z Certain sections were like revisiting favorite scenes from a movie, with dancers flashing body parts without provocation or repositioning their bodies in thorny sequences of movement accumulation. Dance Review: Fall for Dance Festival at City Center - Review 2011-11-03T01:15:46Z The foot is from “The Thinker,” perhaps the most iconic of Rodin’s forms, but presented here in a manner that — if you didn’t know it was by Rodin — you might think was dadaist provocation. Exhibit review: In Virginia, a Rodin show changes how we see the sculptor 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z Fairbanks says that this kind of provocation is a concerted attempt to goad Black South Africans, “inflaming” their anger. An Empathetic Account of the Complexity After Apartheid 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z All awards have a degree of arbitrariness, which is part of their attraction and their provocation, but the Designs of the Year more than most. Designs of the Year 2012 ? review 2012-02-12T00:05:52Z With “The House That Jack Built,” it’s different: the clearest way to confront its new levels of willful, attention-seeking provocation is to avoid it altogether. Review: Lars Von Trier’s Empty, Repugnant Provocations “The House That Jack Built” 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z And his Guggenheim display, when seen in person, is the mildest of provocations. Art Review: Spendable Art That?s Not for Sale 2011-06-02T21:33:14Z "Straw Dogs" is an artful provocation — a meditation on masculinity and societal mores in the guise of an explosive thriller. 'Straw Dogs': Remake crackles with tension 2011-09-15T19:20:10Z Ostensibly recounted with nothing but clinical curiosity, the transgressive patient’s evasions, provocations and sleights of hand are in this way craftily enacted by the novel itself. The Patient Is Obsessed With Sex. But How Reliable Is Her Therapist? 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The desire to seem shocking — as opposed to a curiosity about thresholds physical and ethical — tends to produce provocation of a very plaintive sort. ‘Cat Person’ and Other Tales of Discomfort in a Debut Collection 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z She does not measure her success by proof of her arguments but by their usefulness, plenitude and provocation. A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z Secretary of State Kerry calls the act “a deliberate provocation” and, in his strongest response to date, warns that the United States is considering “a harshly worded memorandum.” Dave Barry’s Year in Review: Trump and the ‘hideous monstrosity’ that was 2016 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z It is a classic, if risky marketing strategy to get attention through provocation. Sex and the Subway Ad 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z In Cleveland and Philadelphia, art installations and performances — taking the form of neutral civic forums, partisan provocations and everything in between — will be cropping up all around the convention centers. Political Art in a Fractious Election Year 2016-07-17T04:00:00Z I thought the idea was just a provocation and that Christoph was this crazy dreamer. In Burkina Faso, Rebuilding With a Local Touch 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z “The Kingdom of Speech” is meant to be a provocation rather than a dissertation. Tom Wolfe’s ‘The Kingdom of Speech’ Takes Aim at Darwin and Chomsky 2016-08-30T04:00:00Z Here, over a warmly ingratiating acoustic groove, West admits that contentment hasn’t displaced his old fury – that the rage is still within him, just waiting to spill forth at the right provocation. Justin Bieber and Kanye West: How their charm offensives differ 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Of course, cable hosts and commentators of all political stripes thrive on outrage and provocation. Perspective | Believe it or not, Fox News once knew shame 2021-12-08T05:00:00Z In place of spaghetti, he proposed recipes that are as arbitrary and disconcerting as the discombobulated poems he called "words in freedom"; food as subversion, as provocation – and as art. The Experimental Food Society's culinary revolution 2010-09-22T20:59:00Z And so, in the tradition of history and morality plays like “A Man for All Seasons” and last year’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, “Ruined,” Mr. Conroy turned to theater as a means of provocation and catharsis. 2010-01-11T08:09:00Z Rather than engaging in dialogue and using controversy as an opportunity to debate, students are putting shock and provocation above truth and openness for the sake of psychological complacency. Letters to the Editor 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z A big-screen provocation that was made relatively quietly, the film had its world premiere at Toronto and very rapidly became yet another flash point in the larger fractious discussion about men and women. Men, Women, Cinema — No Longer the Same Old Story 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z “I believe everything has a right to exist unless it’s a provocation,” he said. In Putin’s Nationalist Russia, a Tolstoy as Cultural Diplomat 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The provocation of “Sunset” is the banality of the situation that Katz proposed: soldiers and girls. ‘Oh, I’ll Show You’: Paul Taylor and Alex Katz’s Long Collaboration 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z With a rousing, kinetic style reminiscent of “The Battle of Algiers,” and confrontational close-ups of fiery eyes and faces, the film is not merely a historical biopic — it’s a provocation. ‘Marighella’ Review: Battle for Brazil 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z So why was Kasich moved to bellyache about it, particularly when the provocation appeared to be little more than glimpsing the cover of a “Harry Potter” book? John Kasich bags On Harry Potter: Ohio guv thinks it’s “weird” that Daniel Radcliffe is an atheist 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z Did he feel his manhood crushed by Fritsch's gentle feminist provocation against male modes of power? Big blue cock erected on fourth plinth in London's Trafalgar Square 2013-07-25T15:13:58Z Work predicated on this notion is now central to mainstream comedy, from the faux-documentary style of The Office to the various provocations of Sacha Baron Cohen and the persona of Stephen Colbert. Chris Morris: the Orson Welles of British comedy? 2010-04-14T09:03:00Z Ripped from the headlines, and involving two of Daisey’s areas of consuming interest — theater and politics — the material seems ripe for his comically lacerating provocations. ‘Scott and Andy and All the Boys’ Review: Ripped From the Headlines 2021-05-09T04:00:00Z Reactive aggression is a response to a provocation or threat. Did Capital Punishment Create Morality? 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z “I saw it as a provocation by Weiwei to join him in an act of performance protest,” Mr. Caminero told the Miami New Times. Ai Weiwei Vase Is Destroyed by Protester at Miami Museum 2014-02-18T05:04:54Z “At times, Mr. Rock sounded like a man confessing his sins, turning vulnerability into his latest provocation,” Jason Zinoman wrote in his review of a performance in Durham, N.C. Chris Rock Is Writing a Book on Race and Relationships 2019-09-17T04:00:00Z Every contour suggests both purity and provocation, speaking to the very essence of desire. | Patrick Demarchelier’s Bodies of Desire 2013-05-13T22:22:22Z The dry Santa Ana winds scream across the basins, and the sun seems to burn meaner, capable of igniting dried-out growth at the slightest provocation. Who Would Firebomb a Homeless Encampment? 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z I got him topless and walking like a wonky orangutan through London in the winter, taught him how to burst into random bouts of violence at the tiniest provocation. Justin Bieber's monkey: The prison diaries 2013-05-17T12:48:02Z But, whereas she used to deploy vulgarity as pure provocation, these days she uses it in service of a sharp moralism. Sarah Silverman’s Comedy Is Changing with the Times 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z These provocations turned out to be much more than mere student hubris. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z But there is more going on here than mere provocation. Forget Kirstie Allsopp's advice – listen to me, the Nigel Farage of fertility 2014-06-03T04:00:00Z Back then sex was, “a tool of provocation for me, truly just a form of transgressive rebellion”. Karley Sciortino: the sex blogger and Slutever presenter redefining sexuality 2018-04-29T04:00:00Z This was a documentary firmly rooted in respect for its subjects, despite the obvious provocations. Rewind TV: The Returned; Confessions of an Alien Abductee; The Fall; Dates; Agnetha: Abba and After – review 2013-06-15T17:00:05Z When called out for insensitivity, they double down on their provocations, decrying P.C. culture as the bane of creative expression. Sarah Silverman’s Comedy Is Changing with the Times 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z They are both hard workers and good husbands, and each is a victim of his own stubbornness as well as of the other’s provocations. Review: In ‘The Insult,’ the Dispute Is Personal. And Political. 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z The confidence that the ugly can be beautiful, and vice versa, is at the root of Ms. Fure’s provocations. Chains Clink, Water Splashes: A Composer’s Beautiful Noise 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z An artist devoted to provocation can’t be surprised if his work provokes. The Parisian Sex Toy Christmas Tree Is the Latest Great Art Scandal 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z But he ends on a more ambivalent note, recognizing the limited scope of this kind of provocation: “Thank God for the First Amendment … letting me vent.” The Kind of Comedy That Can Hurt Trump 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z The other sustained provocation is that “I Love You, Daddy” is partly about the Woody Allen Problem. Louis C.K. and Hollywood’s Canon of Creeps 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z But to imagine a woman who wants little more than to be desired and consumed is a stale and hollow provocation. ‘1 + 1’ Review: She Just Wants to Be His Plaything 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z More than a decade later, Viselman hasn’t lost his taste for provocation, referring to his Oogieloves movie as “a ‘Rocky Horror Picture Show’ for a family audience.” With ‘Oogieloves,’ a Plan to Make the Multiplex More Toddler-Friendly 2012-09-02T03:13:01Z She is friends with Dorothy and Rose, but if she has enough provocation she becomes competitive with them. 'Golden Girl' Rue McClanahan dies 2010-06-03T16:12:00Z O’Neill continued to mingle theatrical and social provocation in his productions of the 1920s and early ’30s, refusing to bowdlerize his material to suit contemporary prejudices or commercial imperatives. A new biography of Eugene O’Neill looks beyond the playwright’s demons |
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