The marriage disintegrated and in 2006, three weeks after their last confrontational encounter, Leo hanged himself.
Other reports said part of the conflict was Mr. Kennedy's confrontational encounter with Ireland's powerful arts minister, Sile de Valera, when the Book of Kells, an ancient Irish manuscript, traveled to Australia last year.
Scattered with deadpan dance moves and confrontational encounters, they are part surreal theatre, part silent comedy, part self-sabotage.
He was known mostly for his ample size (Toronto journalists turn themselves in pretzels trying to avoid the most obvious adjective to describe him), his confrontational encounters with the press, and his dogged refusal to spend what he considered the excessively high office budgets given to city councillors.
After the sometimes confrontational encounters and negotiations, they soon returned to Moscow, where the Soviet leader announced on 21 October that the idea of an armed intervention in Poland should be abandoned.
The encounter was confrontational: Iorga decided to cut out entire passages where, he argued, the author had gone into too much detail.
Some of the encounters proved confrontational, such as this one shot by Hal Rudnick, host of YouTube channel Screen Junkies, which mocked the art project.
Emanuel pledged training to make police encounters with citizens "less confrontational and more conversational".
Neither candidate scored a knockout punch in Monday's third and final debate, as both men reined in the confrontational sniping that had marked their previous testy encounter.
The many filmed encounters with reporters show him constantly refining his confrontational stance, while with other musicians he sits back, absorbing new source material.
Based on these statements, said James Cohen, a professor at Fordham University Law school, prosecutors could argue that the police were criminally reckless during the encounter for approaching Mr. Dorismond for no apparent reason, being confrontational and quickly drawing and firing a weapon without justification.
