Later issues included political reporting by Amy Wilentz and Christopher Hitchens and the kind of offbeat matchup of writer and subject that Mr. Sonnenberg loved to instigate.
In "Amputee," a librarian, whose state attracts a married man, struggles to hold onto her power and independence by refusing to express her love for him, instigating a cycle of luring men only to reject them.
I understand Mark's bias (and yet how interesting that his love of film was effectively instigated by the arrival of video) but I'm still surprised that it translated into such a dramatic rejection of television, and for such a long time.
It would be read and reread by a guilt-ridden John Hogan, who would later tell Professor Nestoros in Greece that he felt responsible, having instigated a new "tough love" relationship with tearaway Stephen.
And I love this part: "It was they who instigated the replacement of the League of Nations with the United Nations and the Security Council to enable them to rule the world through them".
I loved Hazel immediately, the way I love drunk women who instigate alarmingly personal conversations in bar bathrooms.
She would never be a great swimmer without him, he said, and this was what he needed from her in return; he told her that she had instigated the relationship by writing "I love Coach Nelson" on the cover of a notebook.
The newly acquired asset from Citgo is the United States arm of the Venezuelan-state-run operation Petroleos de Venezuela, a sale instigated by President Hugo Chavez, who has little love for things American.
In 1998, seeking to help instill her love for theater in a new generation of New Yorkers, she personally instigated a program to bring smart, underprivileged students from New York's public high schools to the theater.
"I would love to introduce people to some of the programs that we've instigated here, or to exchange collections with other museums," she tells me.
