The critic James Agee thought Bacall provocative and preposterous, both a wolfwhistle and a belly laugh.
"As with all [Naharin's] work, there are political undertones and this finishes with, I think, some provocative open-ended questions," she says.
Or are we teaching them as two separate histories entirely?" Cyma Zarghami, executive vice-president and general manager of Nickelodeon, thinks the provocative nature of this week's Nick News meshes well with Nickelodeon's stance on diversity.
James Clegg London The febrile atmosphere at Westminster is stoked by the media, in whose interest crisis and hysteria is always to be preferred to calm and statesmanship, and by MPs who are unduly influenced by correspondents telling them what they have heard (or what they think sounds provocative).
I thought they were provocative.
Mr. Rabe seems to have tossed anything he thought might be provocative into this stew: homosexuality, abortion, child abuse, prostate problems, diaphragms.
Sunstein wasn't in government when he wrote it, in 2008; he was in the academy, where his job was to invent thought experiments, including provocative ones.
It was the opposition cheer squad, so I thought it was provocative in that way, but it was one of those situations looking back that I probably should have bitten my lip".
The verbal appetite of this group is powerful enough to send advertising copywriters scratching out their polysyllables and newspaper editors scrambling to fill up their Op-Ed pages with a show of "provocative" thought, but is not discriminating enough to care whether words are being employed in the service of fashion or to advance our understanding of life.
