The N.O.P.D. was notorious long before Katrina for failures of leadership, professionalism, and discipline.
Many of the white visitors had never seen the inside of the country's most notorious prison before.
The production's sex-and-violence content made it notorious long before it reached Edinburgh and some of it is genuinely unsettling.
So the men were shuttled among jails, including Richmond's notorious Castle Thunder, before ending up at North Carolina's Salisbury Prison, a mini-Andersonville where men perished in droves from exposure, disease and shootings by guards.
"Yankee Hotel Foxtrot" is Tweedy's apogee, an album that was notorious even before it was released; it skates the border of brilliance and pretense, filled with memorable songs that are constantly subverted, or perhaps augmented, by electronic mayhem.
Richard Barklie, who works in the field of human rights, insisted he did not sing racist songs during the notorious incident before Chelsea's Champions League game against Paris Saint-Germain last week.
Mr. Six's sequel, "The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)," about an obsessed "Human Centipede" fan, Martin, who tries to recreate the original movie's "experiment" in a dingy London warehouse, is already notorious, weeks before IFC Films plans to release it on Oct. 7.
