Word: provocateur
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...series of still photographs of Walesa was shown on TV, an announcer intoned, "Do you want to follow this band of revolutionaries, or would you prefer a peaceful national understanding of the kind the government is seeking?" The army newspaper Zolnierz Wolnosci called Walesa "a great liar and provocateur" who headed a group of "madmen" who were striving for "anarchy and chaos...
...cast and crew; a week later he was back-unshaven, disheveled, distraught-to confess that his behavior had put his career in jeopardy with "the show-business community," then sobbed and fell silent. Was he serious? Is he mad? Perhaps he was once again playing the Duchampian agent provocateur of modern comedy: the Dada of haha...
...highly-skilled agent provocateur, as when she goes undercover to write a piece on a New York est class. Her perfectly timed charges, wired together in a tightly-structured essay, totally demolish Werner Erhard's sham life-training course. When she turns to Jane Fonda or Billy Graham, she wields a razor instead of a club, making accurate, carefully-planned incisions. She distrusts dogma wherever she finds it, whether in Graham's entrepreneurial righteousness or Fonda's one-dimensional millionaire liberalism. A dedicated feminist, she nevertheless gets us past the cant and rhetoric that hardens around the core of feminist...
...strike, a man rose and identified himself as a member of the local writers' union and pleaded for understanding for Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek. When a bona fide member of the writers' union and one shipyard worker denounced the man as an impostor and provocateur, a group of workers backed him against the wall. Walesa grabbed the microphone and warned, "If he is hit or even touched, I will give up the leadership." He then called for 20 workers to escort the man from the hall and admonished, "Don't whistle, don't shout. Show...
Despite Barbarians' three-hour evocation of a technologically doomed milieu, the most vivid image in the play is that of a woman burning with fitful passions. As a teasing agent provocateur of sex, Nadezhda, played with sensual animal magnetism by Sheila Allen, is a queen bee killer. Her husband, Monakhov (Brian Murray), whom she loathes, pleads for her love, holding his spectacles in his hand like a beggar with a tin cup. The seemingly amour-proof Tsyganov offers to sweep her off to Paris and is crushed by her cruel rebuke that at 49, he is disgustingly old. Under...