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Rushdie, meanwhile, has all the controversy, and attendant celebrity, he has often seemed to crave -- yet with a cruel vengeance. For years Rushdie has been one of Britain's most vocal polemicists, an agent provocateur who has delighted in mixing it up -- even if "it" means politics and literature. His first great novel, Midnight's Children, about India, was successfully challenged by the Prime Minister of India; his second, Shame, about Pakistan, was banned in Pakistan; now the last in his unofficial trilogy, about both India and England, has been banned in India and burned in England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Prosaic Justice All Around | 3/6/1989 | See Source »

...quick to disavow the use of violent tactics. Says Julie Lewin of the Fund for Animals: "Violence toward people does not help animals." Some animal-rights proponents contend that Trutt's aborted bomb attack is so damaging to their cause that it may have been instigated by an agent provocateur. Police say they believe the bomb she planted was too sophisticated for her to have made by herself. As the FBI joined the investigation last week, Trutt professed to have no knowledge of explosives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Serious Case of Puppy Love | 11/28/1988 | See Source »

...fresh out of jail, having served 14 days for throwing a tear-gas canister back at Israeli soldiers. "The army is the provocation," he said. "The fact that they come into our camp is enough so that the shabab react by throwing stones." Osama admitted to being a provocateur. "Since he was a kid, he has belonged to the profession of stone thrower," said his friend Tarek Ali, 18, with some reverence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East In the Eye Of a Revolt | 1/25/1988 | See Source »

...camera, while a young friend at his arm questions the act with his eyes. In the brief catalog that accompanies the San Diego show, Curator Arthur Ollman reads this image as a metaphor for Klein the photographer: "The aggressor and the intimate voyeur," Ollman calls him. "Both the provocateur and the calm student of provocation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Photography: Come On, Baby, Do the Locomotion | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...prearranging talks with party elders like Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada. Between glances at his color-coded floor map and scurrying to his next "target of opportunity," Wallace described his convention role as "part journalist, part producer, part booking agent, part offensive lineman." He might have added, part agent provocateur. Like his father, CBS Correspondent Mike Wallace, Chris has an instinct for seeking out controversy, sometimes for arousing it. He described his feisty exchange with Helms, who accused journalists of distorting Reagan's policies, as "a pretty fair tennis match...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Scrounging for Good Air | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

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