Word: provacateur
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...high relief that, try as we might, we cannot despise him. When Sabbath is booted out of his puppetry professorship at a local college, Roth sees fit to include, as a foot-note, a lengthy transcript of the offending teacher-student phone sex episode. This is only Roth the provacateur, daring us to be offended. Sadly, it's gratuitous, lurid instead of daring...
Calling Stone an "agent provacateur for truth," Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the subject of Stone's film "Reversal of Fortune," introduced the filmmaker...
Both she and veteran SDSers agreed that she never acted as an agent provacateur, that she never suggested particularly militant tactics with an eye towards setting up the radicals for a police killing...
...that time Trotsky was under house arrest in Norway, but many of the papers were hidden in a Paris apartment, supposedly out of the reach of Stalin. Nevertheless, agents of the G.P.U. (Russia's secret police at that time) located the apartment, perhaps with the aid of an agent provacateur, and they occupied the adjacent room. Then, with a torch, they cut through the intervening wall and made off with the papers...
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