Word: subverters
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...leadership by calling for their arrest. "What is the role of [former President Mohammed] Khatami, [former Prime Minister and presidential candidate Mir-Hossein] Mousavi and [presidential candidate Mehdi] Karroubi in this coup?" asked Yadollah Javani, the organization's political chief, referring to the alleged plot by the opposition to subvert the regime by way of protests. "If they are the main agents, which is the case, judiciary and security officials should go after them, arrest them, try them and punish them." (See pictures of the turbulent aftermath of Iran's election...
...born of the even bigger American Idol? Fox's answer: a musical-comedy series with current tunes and a young cast. Glee - debuting May 19 after Idol and then returning in the fall - is a delight but a risk: a devilish, exuberant comedy that manages to capture and subvert the Idol aesthetic at the same time...
...Jarman's Caravaggio and, unseen, read the dying director's musings on mortality in Blue. After Jarman succumbed to AIDS in 1994, she mourned not only the his passing but his elliptical, confrontational style. "That kind of art is dead," she said. "What you can do now is subvert with art that disguises itself as commerce." That may sound like an admission of defeat, but for Swinton it was just a new stage in the war to make movies matter...
...hangs high on the wall of Cabot Dining Hall. The framed photo focuses on his gaping mouth, out of which rolls a thick red tongue pierced by a full-sized steel fork. A makeshift title cut from a newspaper—the superlative, “Most Likely to...SUBVERT THE SYSTEM”—accompanies the picture...
...educational stuff goes down with only the faintest academic aftertaste. (David Levithan, executive editorial director at Scholastic and a young-adult author himself, calls The 39 Clues "subversively educational," by which he presumably means that kids won't notice they're learning, not that the books actually subvert any societal norms.) "It's very much about family dynamics," Levithan says. "That's the heart of it. The most relatable factor about it is that every kid thinks their family is just really strange and large and weird. The idea that you can be born into this family that has these...