And that is what's most provocative about Musk's decision.
The show, like Dick's novel, is most provocative when it shows Americans adapting to fascism with an alarming smoothness.
One of the show's most provocative inclusions is Eleanor Antin's takeoff of a vanity memoir, loosely modeled on Isadora Duncan's.
"Who Really Cooks the Books?," by Warren E. Buffett (Op-Ed, July 24), is most provocative, but he misses one long overlooked way to bring abusive C.E.O.'s down to earth.
But what is most provocative is the tone, the mixture of serious themes with sharp humor, and doing it with this setting and subject, which is typically so somber".
To develop this list, we polled 350 researchers, asking them to name the peer-reviewed findings from the science of a meaningful life that were most provocative, powerful, and influential this year.
Yet the fourth season is most provocative when it refuses to resolve its emotional contradictions, by showing how insufficient an apology can be, how despair can be as reasonable a response as faith.
He has collaborated with acts such as Of Montreal and Regina Spektor and also fronts the synth-pop ensemble Jupiter One, but it's as a solo artist that he's most provocative, using his violin, a looping machine, and acrobatic vocals to build and bend ethereal and ecstatic melodies.
Any humorist could make hay of Oprah, adolescent shame or parenting, but Mr. Almond is most provocative when he's re-treading the alleyways of his personal experience, such as his failure to outmaneuver Hannity & Colmes of Fox News last year, when they invited him to discuss his aversion to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, or his run-in with a blogger nemesis in 2005.
