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"iconoclast" Definitions
  1. a person who criticizes popular beliefs or established customs and ideas

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That era was less suited to a disruptive iconoclast like Trump — and to a disruptive iconoclast like Sanders.
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But Finley, always an iconoclast, saw in Washington an opportunity.
" — Veronica Webb, model "Azzedine Alaïa was the iconoclast of tomorrow.
The rapist is a man of unique tastes, an iconoclast.
The episode recalled Mr. Scruton's longstanding reputation as an iconoclast.
On Thursday, YouTube reinstated the channels of Sellner and The Iconoclast (and seemingly VDARE as well), telling Buzzfeed it had made the "wrong call" when it decided to take down Sellner and The Iconoclast.
Surprisingly conventional new choreography from the iconoclast Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
"I would describe him as an iconoclast," Dr. Fan said, laughing.
Her queen is a pure iconoclast: emotional, demonstrative, sexual and driven.
That, says Khanna, has made Benioff an "iconoclast" among the billionaire class.
Maddon, who now guides the Chicago Cubs, is the original iconoclast among modern managers.
But second, and perhaps more to the point, Salatin is also a natural iconoclast.
And his fixation on his role as an iconoclast has, at times, rung hollow.
Like Dada iconoclast Francis Picabia, Williams plucks motifs from any and all style periods.
Iconoclast jihadists had smashed part of the sculpture's cheek and hat, but it was restored.
The natural iconoclast in me wants to push back a bit; what about "The Sopranos "?
Trump may be an iconoclast, but the Americans who voted for him were not deaf.
Officials at the museum, the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art, or MIMA, canceled the opening.
" Some military leaders are fundamentally contrarian, but McMaster, Ken Pollack said, "is not an iconoclast.
His base thinks he's the ultimate political iconoclast and that this whole exercise is bogus.
The natural iconoclast in me wants to push back a bit; what about The Sopranos?
Demure and ladylike in appearance, she was a steely iconoclast in print and in life.
He is the iconoclast, the outsider, and I say he is worth watching just for that.
He was a consummate hugger, professional cuddler, iconoclast and master bulls—er who was extremely accident prone.
Chance the Rapper's long been known as a rap iconoclast, with a persona largely centered around humility.
Often an iconoclast, President-elect Donald J. Trump is already showing signs of being a normal politician.
Worth noting is Thiel's reputation in Silicon Valley, where he's known as a contrarian and an iconoclast.
One of them, Iconoclast, promoted conspiracy theories about "white replacement" in Britain to more than 200,000 subscribers.
Nietzsche was a lot of things — iconoclast, recluse, misanthrope — but he wasn't a racist or a fascist.
Still: The Young Pope puts the spotlight on a charismatic iconoclast who gains sudden and absolute power.
A staunch iconoclast, Mantel has occasionally stirred controversy with her heterodox attitudes about British royalty and politics.
This Chicago-born pianist has made a steady and seamless transition from brash iconoclast to measured statesman.
He recorded with everyone from the big-band leader Woody Herman to the folk iconoclast John Prine.
The man I spoke to is a much kinder, gentler version of the fiery ginger iconoclast of old.
He has cultivated an image as a kind of iconoclast - a surfer and libertarian who supports legal marijuana.
KCPK got in touch with Iconoclast, the production company I am represented by, and showed me the track.
For example, it deleted and then reinstated several channels with white nationalist views, including Vdare and the Iconoclast.
He is hardly an iconoclast, rejecting immigration as a balm for the country's demographic ailments, as most politicians do.
Trump is the outsider iconoclast that gives hope of a top-to-bottom shake up of how DC works.
Throughout, we've gotten flashbacks of Tig's mom, a stylish iconoclast who carved a wild life from a staid one.
He's sold himself as an establishment-crushing iconoclast when he's really little more than an unusually accomplished B.S. artist.
But he was often caught between being an iconoclast and a conventional Republican, alienating both his supporters and traditional conservatives.
Ten years later, they're both out of football, and Nike has unveiled an ad campaign with the league's essential iconoclast.
Young is an iconoclast and unapologetic curmudgeon, who had said he worried the bill would be bad for his state.
He's a Twitter iconoclast, or he's the guy who had a cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York.
Always independent, Meredith is an iconoclast who says things that can sound grating to people who otherwise see him favorably.
Anne McElvoy asks the author and iconoclast Bret Easton Ellis about his decision to take on the social mores of millennials.
Maybe the social stigma will have to be broken by an iconoclast like Kanye West or, I don't know, MC Hammer.
"I came to Brutalism as an angry, arrogant iconoclast who thought they'd stuck the knife in and sold out," he remembers.
The Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (MIMA) is based in a former brewery on the banks of Brussels' industrial-era canal.
Within the more diverse Democratic base, there's no single constituency of a comparable size to lift an iconoclast to the nomination.
Where Rauschenberg developed as an iconoclast quickly and precociously, Bissière matured very slowly, going through multiple phases of development and experimentation.
This is just him doubling down to stay with the only team he's known, and remain an iconoclast among his peers.
"White nationalist activist Martin Sellner and British YouTuber the Iconoclast" are back on the platform, Mark Di Stefano reports at BuzzFeed.
The truth is that a character like the TV Chris is not an iconoclast, not anymore, and certainly not on television.
And that is fine with the chef Gennaro Nasti, an iconoclast keen to rub caviar in the face of Neapolitan tradition.
Cyrus herself made a career off of a rambunctious rebrand from Disney's golden child to a naked, wrecking-ball-riding iconoclast.
John McCain (R-AZ), an iconoclast obsessed with process, said he would back the bill — despite such major last-minute revisions.
This morning, the LA Times entertainment reporter, Amy Kaufman, unearthed dozens of gems about young iconoclast, Bella Thorne, in a colorful profile.
He was wrapping production on the Netflix film Gore, a biographical portrait of Gore Vidal, the late literary iconoclast and public intellectual.
The New York socialite eschewed uptown conventions, and spent her life realizing brilliant, ballsy visions that made her an iconoclast among peers.
Project CARS 2 remains the iconoclast of the bunch, though in terms of singular daring it's probably been surpassed by GT Sport.
The tumultuous Republican race grew even more volatile after a memorably feisty debate and Chris Christie's endorsement of the Republican iconoclast Donald Trump.
It's hard to imagine anyone but the most deluded audience member ever mistaking him for a genuine iconoclast in the Tyler Durden vein.
President John Tyler, an ideological iconoclast in the Whig Party, ascended to the presidency upon Harrison's death a mere month into his term.
But the rest of the field went one better: They have been anti-establishment, each in his or her own way an iconoclast.
WASHINGTON — In a town filled with button-down lawyers, Donald F. McGahn II has always been an iconoclast bent on shaking things up.
Perhaps, given his Aspen campaign experience and his frequent musings about running for Senate, we'd be electing this ultimate iconoclast to federal office today.
The Jamaica-born singer, supermodel, and actress is the definition of an iconoclast, beauty renegade, and all-around badass woman with an IDGAF attitude.
In the Simpsons episode "Lisa the Iconoclast," the children of Springfield are shown a video telling the story of the town's founder, Jebediah Springfield.
He is a lonely iconoclast, haunted by his greatest creation until his death, and even afterward, when he only exists as a digital self.
Goichi Suda, or "Suda51," is an iconoclast video game auteur whose studio, Grasshopper Manufacture, has built a cult following with subversive and outrageous titles.
An iconoclast even then, he refused to stand for the playing of the national anthem in protest of Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War.
Imposing in size and resembling a retired linebacker more than the MIT economist that he is, Daron Acemoglu has built the reputation of an iconoclast.
Like Geppetto in his workshop, the Italian design iconoclast "performs" a chair in New York, complemented by a show of rarely seen works in Chelsea.
An iconoclast in black leg warmers and animal-print panties, he has challenged and indeed changed our ideas about race, sexuality, and animal-print panties.
Franca Sozzani, under whose 28-year direction Italian Vogue reigned as a daring and often impious iconoclast on the newsstand, died on Thursday in Milan.
Her goth tendencies, veganism, and misandry all mark her as an iconoclast in a stifling small-town culture where football kings and cheerleading queens reign supreme.
Catch the routine — a fast-paced mix of squats, bridges, crunches and push-ups demonstrated by Okafor and Iconoclast member Dorian Cervantes — in the clip below.
That sequence alone marks her as a bit of an iconoclast, a woman with strong opinions and a quirky, unusual, but well-expressed sense of humor.
It's pretty galling that Jebediah doesn't get a mention, although Merriam-Webster does put the first usage in 1996, which is when "Lisa the Iconoclast" aired.
The Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art has opened in Molenbeek, a Brussels district where homegrown extremists have been linked to some of Europe's deadliest terrorist attacks.
While I was happy if they also happened to de-girlify her wardrobe, I didn't set out to turn her into a pint-size fashion iconoclast.
These stereotypes are, not incidentally, the absolute inverse of the types and tropes celebrated in American cinema: the rebel, the bad boy, the iconoclast, the prankster.
" Relishing the role of iconoclast, he confounded the scientific establishment by dismissing the consensus about the perils of man-made climate change as "tribal group-thinking.
A decorated veteran of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan with a reputation as an iconoclast, he came to Mar-a-Lago in full-dress uniform.
There, he explained that his multicultural upbringing plays a a foundational part in his cooking, making him both a traditionalist and an iconoclast all at once.
Gabbard, an iconoclast who stands apart from mainstream Democratic positions on foreign policy and who once opposed same-sex marriage, clashed with Harris at an earlier debate.
Professor Wrong, an iconoclast who taught sociology for nearly three decades at New York University, contributed prodigiously to journals that were devoured and debated by the intelligentsia.
And it was especially true of the British author and explorer Bruce Chatwin, to whom another iconoclast and another Bruce — Weber — pays loving tribute in ''Nowhere Man.
The University of Pennsylvania School of Design LA+ Journal's ICONOCLAST DESIGN COMPETITION is an example par excellence of architects digging into the weeds of creativity, quite literally.
But while there are many topics where Trump is an iconoclast, out of step with some of his Republican colleagues, let alone the Democrats, this is not it.
"How to Have a Lifestyle," Quentin Crisp This masterful eccentric serves up lessons on how to be an iconoclast — I have my father's signed copy with me always.
" Brit Awards 2016: Complete winners' list Singer Annie Lennox called the much-loved Bowie, posthumous winner of the BRIT Icon Award, a "quintessential visionary" and "the ultimate iconoclast.
He is an iconoclast and, in this regard, shares something with his peer Peter Saul, with an older artist he befriended, H. C. Westermann, and with Philip Guston.
With anger at establishment parties riding high in Brazil, the brash iconoclast has compared his candidacy to Trump's 2016 campaign, stirring some voters with fiery speeches while alarming others.
But when it was unveiled in 1994, its key design elements — an asymmetrical time display and outsize date divided across two windows — cast the German maker as an iconoclast.
In this way he has overtaken Manuel Valls, the centre-left prime minister, as the left's most outspoken iconoclast, and shown up the Socialist left as die-hard conservatives.
I'm grateful Alex gave me some very human circumstances to dig into, because I don't know that I have the skills to play some kind of Howard Hughes iconoclast.
The long arm of Trump's fame finally reached these workers not through his storied business enterprises but through his precipitous rise as a right-wing iconoclast in American politics.
That's one reason why Trump seems to be immune to "gaffes" — his supporters see him as a courageous iconoclast who "tells it like it is," even if it's offensive.
My book about Varian Fry focuses on the courage of a humanist and, yes, an iconoclast, who managed to save many men, women and children from imprisonment and death.
Bruce's deification as a boundary-defying iconoclast began not long after his death — Bob Fosse directed a biopic starring Dustin Hoffman in 1974 — and continued unabated into the 2000s.
In comparison, Ivo van Hove's adaptation of "Opening Night," seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 353, feels downright conventional in retrospect, despite his reputation as an iconoclast.
He treats everyone who walks through the door at Iconoclast, a WeWork space for personal trainers, with the same amount of respect coupled with a tiny dose of tough love.
I profiled McCarthy last year and discovered at the time that McCarthy was an unlikely iconoclast for an idea that threatens the big banks' grip on startups' public-market dreams.
Over the course of his career, he has played with a wide range of experimental musicians, including minimalist pioneer Phill Niblock, guitar iconoclast Loren Connors, and sax legend Joe McPhee.
They also have different styles and résumés: The insider and the businessman, a Democrat who has always believed in government and a Republican iconoclast who talks about tearing it down.
Rather than conform in the age of the 4-5-1 or 4-3-3, Ranieri is the iconoclast who wed this club to the supposedly obsolete 4-4-2.
Though both channels appear to violate YouTube's policies on white supremacy and discrimination, Sellner and Iconoclast had their channels restored less than two days later when the bans were appealed.
She sees Mr. Hockney as an iconoclast who has been forthright about his inclinations, depicting homoerotic scenes at a time when gay sex was still a criminal offense in England.
West seems at odds with the fact that he is the iconoclast who poured his everything into amazing, genre-pushing albums like My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and Watch the Throne.
These shows have largely singled out the most iconoclast representatives of the region, such as Bruce Conner, his Rat Bastard Protective Association, William T. Wiley, Roy De Forest, and Franklin Williams.
But not Theron, whose persistence in rejecting such flat roles have earned her the label of iconoclast, "refusing to conform to society's — or Hollywood's — expectations of her," as Vogue put it.
And because he knows that his base, at its core, is an anti-elite coalition, he understands that he has a green light from his base to become America's leading iconoclast.
From the start, he was an iconoclast, committed to using everyday materials and found artifacts, blurring the lines between sculpture and painting, between reproduction and individual creation, between objects and artworks.
It's very Mangold to make a movie about how an iconoclast is still in the service of the Man, and this might be his ultimate statement of intent in that regard.
They prove him to be an authentic iconoclast, a superhero of transgression, the guy who brags about grabbing women's crotches, makes fun of war heroes, and speaks unashamedly of waging nuclear war.
Paglen is an iconoclast in the true definition of the word: someone whose work provokes questions about the institutions (the government, the military, the technology industry) we live with in uneasy equilibrium.
DeChambeau may be golf's truest iconoclast, with an unorthodox swing and a bag filled with irons and wedges all made the same size — 21 inches, or about that of a 218-iron.
The show is Freaks and Geeks minus the Apatowian whiteness — it should be an iconoclast, but Netflix's deluge of content, it runs the risk of being buried under the Next Next Big Thing.
As an iconoclast, surprise winner and self-declared offender against all things liberals hold dear, Mr Trump was always likely to make Democrats more upset than any other Republican victor would have done.
As Rosenquist told Weinberg the night of the Rose re-opening, he consciously set out to be an iconoclast, moving beyond Jackson Pollock's drip or splash paintings to create a new avant-garde.
Season 4 had ended on a heartbreaking note: a key character, the black lesbian Poussey Washington, a gentle iconoclast with prospects for a life after prison, was killed by an inexperienced white guard.
In 2010, the artist Langdon Graves and her art class of teenagers were invited to appear on Sundance Channel's "Iconoclast" series, featuring Mr. Close and the magician David Blaine, she told The Times.
For those three years, the iconoclast, freethinker and reluctant voice of a generation proclaimed faith in salvation by Jesus Christ (despite his Jewish upbringing), with lyrics that drew a line in the sand.
THE LIFE AND LOVES OF E. NESBIT Victorian Iconoclast, Children's Author, and Creator of "The Railway Children"By Eleanor Fitzsimons Let's assume that you have never heard of the English author E. Nesbit.
That irrepressible iconoclast van Hove, it was said, would be taking a grittier, rawer approach to a show that rattled Broadway when it opened in 1957 but has since become a sentimental standard.
As Scaled Composites churned out cunning, award-winning designs, it became the aviation equivalent of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, staffed by stubborn outcasts who had been lured by the charisma of their iconoclast boss.
A solo show that tells all the truth, but tells it slant, Rebecca Gilman's "A Woman of the World" offers a lecture by Mabel Loomis Todd, a 13th-century writer, editor and sexual iconoclast.
Fellow iconoclast and nightlife mainstay Bernhard will mark her 228th anniversary offering defiant merriment with "Sandy's Holiday Extravaganza — A Decade of Madness and Mayhem" featuring the Sandyland Squad Band at 27183 and 22718 p.m.
The clip was co-produced by Iconoclast, The FADER, and K7, and brings the classic Romeo and Juliet love story tragedy into modern Germany, inserting new subtexts about homophobia and racism into the familiar format.
He revealed in the ESPN interview that he had not voted in a presidential election since 1980, leaving observers to wonder: Is he, at 71, still the spiritual iconoclast, or out of step, and touch?
For decades now a select few British nightclubs have attempted to turn the old clichés of door policy on their head, to forgo the nuances of dress code and go full iconoclast on the status quo.
Read: How Artists Around the World Are Mourning Prince On Thursday night, people all over the world mourned the loss and celebrated the life of pop star and iconoclast Prince, who passed away at age 57.
The cinema innovator and iconoclast Jean-Luc Godard never actually said, "All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun," but it has become a well-known adage, anyway — because it's true.
His designation of Rodin as an iconoclast was in reference to the abattis, in that "he cut off arms and legs and heads" of the plaster figurines, essentially destroying them in order to create something new.
Swift's post supporting Democrats contrasts with the views of hip hop veteran Kanye West, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump and a self-styled iconoclast who is set to meet with the president later this week.
New albums from Nick Cave and M.I.A dropped this week; the former is a heartbreaking, stark work from one of our dearest artists, the latter is likely the final chapter in the career of a unique iconoclast.
They knew it when he was mayor — more iconoclast technocrat than conservative crusader — with a habit of scooping up sidewalk trash, calling in potholes and staring up, nodding, at park-dwelling homeless men with grievances to air.
Until our third underdog comes into their lives — the rule-flouting iconoclast Gretchen Whipple, the black sheep of her own family, which has been embroiled in a generations-long Hatfield-and-McCoy-esque feud with the Vickerys.
Even if you've scratched your head over Mr. Lydon's TV ad work and other efforts to maintain a professional life in recent years, this affectionate and frank movie can elicit newfound admiration for a slightly mellowed iconoclast.
Those familiar with Steve Reich as an avant-garde iconoclast partly responsible for the emergence of minimalism in the 25s might be surprised to hear that the 217-year-old composer has taken a Copland-esque turn.
In the Wayne Tarrance role, Connerty believes that he's found his Tom Cruise in Taylor, who's new to Axe Capital and whose profile as a gender-nonconforming, almond-latte-drinking iconoclast suggests an ideal candidate for flipping.
Instead of being a grenade-throwing iconoclast bent on blowing up the D.C. establishment and the big-money power structures, he has stocked his inner circle with billionaires and bankers, and he has bent to the establishment.
You may think of him as a tatted up, whiskey-swilling, uncensorable iconoclast with an 11,000-square-foot party pad in Beverly Hills and one ex who reportedly wore a vial of his blood around her neck.
In past seasons of The X-Files, genius writer Darin Morgan (about whom I wrote so much more here) stood out as an iconoclast, writing brutally funny episodes that questioned the underlying premises of the show itself.
Competitors for the University of Pennsylvania's ICONOCLAST Design Competition were asked to design a post-apocalyptic Central Park after a fictional eco-terrorist attack left "Bill Di Blastoff" looking for a more democratic, ecological, and beautiful plan.
We are the children of Abraham, the original idol smasher and iconoclast: We know what it is to hold fast to unpopular ideas in the face of opprobrium and persecution — and to see those ideas vindicated in time.
Mr. Trump campaigned as an iconoclast, but it became clear early in his administration that his disruptiveness was aimed less at bringing fresh thinking to bear on stale policymaking than at assaulting the vital institutions of governance themselves.
Ms. Sozzani, once described by this newspaper as "a daring and often impious iconoclast on the newsstand," was widely respected for reshaping the job of a fashion editor during her 28 years at the helm of Italian Vogue.
However, numbers are also aided by the opening of new attractions, such as the Millennium Iconoclast Museum of Art (MIMA) in the century-old Belle-Vue brewery on the canal, and interest in this former international hub for crafts.
The first five minutes of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, iconoclast Luc Besson's latest magnum opus, emotionally overwhelmed me in a way I wasn't expecting, in a way I dare not say a word more about.
"Rodin was an iconoclast," the artist told me in an interview conducted in a corner of the exhibition's fourth and final gallery, flanked by a large sculptural vitrine on the left and an even larger painting on the right.
Like Bale's character in The Big Short, Axelrod is into Metallica, but rather than marking him as an iconoclast, Axe's Master Of Puppets T-shirt seems to be a not-so-subtle message about his penchant for malevolent string-pulling.
John Vaccaro, a theater iconoclast whose avant-garde troupe, known as Playhouse of the Ridiculous, helped establish Off Off Broadway as a source of antic creativity and thumb-in-the-eye subversion of social and artistic conventions, died on Aug.
In the Senate, he has been both revered as an iconoclast and criticized by many, including Mr. Trump, for his willingness to buck his party on issues like campaign finance reform and, last summer, the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Like Mr. Mortier, Mr. Hinterhäuser invited into the Vienna Philharmonic's lair some new blood, notably the gifted iconoclast Teodor Currentzis, whose eyes flash as he describes his ideas for extravagantly long rehearsal periods, and MusicAeterna, his ardent ensemble from Perm, Russia.
What they don&apost understand is that Americans are fed up with both parties, they are disgusted, so they purposely elected an iconoclast, a disruptor, and someone that they knew would get results and make decisions and move with the speed of Trump.
Never shy about being an iconoclast, he has railed against college (he recently said it's as corrupt as the Catholic Church in the 16th century) and has even looked into starting an offshore colony in an attempt to create a libertarian utopia.
In all likelihood, Trump will weave them into a broader narrative, one that paints him as an iconoclast outsider who was unafraid to grab hold of the various third rails of the US foreign policy consensus—and who lived to tell the tale.
In other words, she's a Kelly Reichardt character—and, to a meaningful extent, she is Kelly Reichardt, an iconoclast who has been tending her own ranch for over twenty years, with little regard to the ebbs and flows of the scene around her.
Food Matters When the news broke that the decorated pastry chef and cookbook author Mindy Segal had partnered with Illinois's largest medicinal marijuana grower, eyebrows were raised — and not because the outspoken Chicago iconoclast would be out of place making pot pastries.
To others in Margaret River, a laid-back beachside town known as much for its surfing as for its wine, Mr. Berliner, 64, is a bit of an iconoclast, both for his peculiar ways in the vineyard and for his outsize pricing.
Along with a cast that included the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, Gandini was about to engage in a complex ritual: resurrecting the titular pharaoh (a sun-worshipping iconoclast best known as Tutankhamun's father) through several hours of minimalist music and high-intensity juggling.
Linder started dancing at eight years old, got recruited to the Royal Ballet School of London when he was 15, and went on to work with choreographer Michael Clark (described by the Independent as "British dance's true iconoclast") and Meg Stuart's dance company Damaged Goods.
An even split among his gospel roots, classical education, R&B sensibilities, and frank poetry about the agonies and ecstasies of black queer love, soil fashions him as an iconoclast for a cynical digital era, in which earnest, messy vulnerability has become a rarity.
By the end of the last century, there wasn't one prevailing aesthetic, but many, from goth to dandyism to sportswear, converging on the street and in underground clubs — all important reference points for that era's iconoclast designers, most notably John Galliano and Alexander McQueen.
And while Senator Bernie Sanders, her fellow liberal iconoclast, has been running more traditional ads, Ms. Warren's decision to air her new ad on CNBC in New York City and Washington has helped generate a news cycle out of her battle with the billionaires.
Despite Zinoman's Generation X birth date, he knows his television history well enough to argue that Letterman was as much a throwback to midcentury TV as a postmodern iconoclast, modulating from Steve Allen's style (waggish, superior and happily ridiculous) to Jack Paar's (neurotic, confessional, tormented).
A true iconoclast, Giridharadas is utterly unapologetic in criticizing the biggest heroes of the past generation: business titans and philanthropists like Zuckerberg and Bill Gates who give away billions but, he argues, do so mainly to hide greed, exploitation, and the subversion of democracy.
The judge is not a moderate but an iconoclast, with unique positions that neither political party fully supports: He supports same-sex marriage, is a conservative on economic matters, opposes the war on drugs, minimizes privacy and is famous for undertaking economic analysis of many issues.
A virtuoso guitarist, an indefatigable bandleader, a tenacious businessman, and a maddening iconoclast, his prolific output ranges from hit pop singles ("Valley Girl") to orchestral works of formidable modernist complexity ("Bob in Dacron"), with trippy jazz-rock instrumentals ("Peaches En Regalia") and much else in between.
Akoi-Jackson, for his part, remained stoic throughout his 90-minute performance, but the discerning viewer might have detected a mischievous twinkle in his eye — and even a cursory conversation with him out of character reveals a playful iconoclast who is no champion of rules in any setting.
The owner/founder of New York City's Iconoclast Fitness Studio, and two-time Golden Gloves boxing champion, shares that mantra with everyone he trains, a roster that happens to include A-listers like Jennifer Lopez, Brooke Shields, Mariska Hargitay and Helena Christensen, just to name drop a few.
At the end of one of the strangest sagas in sports history—one that saw Rodriguez transition from prize signing to MVP to postseason goat to October redemption story to drug cheat to re-embraced iconoclast—Cashman's gesture scanned as generosity, an attempt to tidy up a messy story.
For Mr. West, an iconoclast fixated on new artistic paths and distribution systems, the soft rollout of "Pablo" allowed him to play by his own rules, which in this case included updating beats, tweaking lyrics and tinkering with the track list even after the album's so-called release.
Meanwhile, he had started a long and rewarding professional relationship with Vidal, the famed literary iconoclast whose 1948 novel The City and the Pillar was a landmark depiction of a gay man's coming of age — and included lengthy passages about the lives of gay men in Hollywood in the 1940s.
And yet, with the prospect of a future no doubt filled with book deals and appearances, Kaepernick has lobbied to re-enter the N.F.L., via his social media accounts and through his representatives, despite the potential for football injuries, negative public reaction or damage to his status as an iconoclast hero.
Born in Germany in 1906, a Jew by birth and an iconoclast by temperament, she fled her native country after Hitler became chancellor in 1933, first for Czechoslovakia, then Switzerland, then Paris, where she was living in 1937 when the Nazis officially eradicated her citizenship so that she became stateless.
Simply put, Bannon is a truly heartfelt iconoclast who wants to destroy many of the old ways and constructs of the way the swamp controls the process, whereas Rove, the ultimate inside White House player, shifted adeptly from "The Architect," to insider-outsider Republican party grandee and seemingly permanent consigliere.
Beyond the zealotry and fanaticism of the ISIS fanboys, however, is an intellectual lineage that Wood traces back to the thirteenth-century polymath and iconoclast Ibn Taymiyyah, as well as his seventeenth-century student Ibn Abd al-Wahhab, who popularized the idea that Muslims could apostatize other Muslims and kill them for sinning.
In Hawaii, Twigg-Smith had the reputation of iconoclast and rogue, not at all a toady of old money, after having ousted his uncle in a takeover bid at the Advertiser and directing his paper to endorse Daniel Inouye, a Japanese-American, when he first ran for US Senate in 1963 against a scion of the white upper class.
Called the "Merchant Prince" by the media, his Midas touch has been the subject of much intrigue; his in-office quirks, hands-on leadership style, and insistent intimacy with all aspects of a brand's products, people, and systems have made him an iconoclast in the retail system (what other CEO asks shoppers to email them personally with complaints?).
One of the most combative conversations around appropriation and exchange in the last year revolved around the novelist and self-proclaimed iconoclast Lionel Shriver, who caused a stir in September after appearing at a writers' festival wearing a sombrero and lamenting the effect of "identity politics" and its potentially censorious influence on literature, experimentation and creativity.
A glance through these issues complicates Brown's reputation as a forward-looking iconoclast, ripping up the old order for something untested and new: mixology is the oldest practice in the editing of magazines—the word "magazine" originally referred to a storehouse—and she understands herself predominantly as a restoration gal, peeling away the shag carpet to reveal the parquet floors.
He was one of the last great iconoclast authors of American cinema—a genre-bending filmmaker who could turn a road-trip rom-com into a film about escaping neoliberal capitalism (Something Wild), spin Neil Young concert documentaries into decade-spanning portraits of an artist's evolution, and transform a wedding farce starring Anne Hathaway into a deep study of addiction and guilt (Rachel Getting Married).
A notorious iconoclast and legendary no-wave pioneer, Lunch is back living in New York City again after a multi-year stint in Europe, and she's working with a new generation of punks on Venus Flytrap, a digital short in the vein of This Is Spinal Tap and The Mighty Boosh that challenges the record industry's patriarchy and aims to provide a "queer-centric experience" for viewers.
At the same time, he's taking the world closer to the brink with North Korea, exacerbating a nuclear crisis with no clear face saving exit for himself or dictator Kim Jong Un. And he took another blow on the chin on Tuesday night, when his favored candidate lost Alabama's Republican Senate primary to Roy Moore, an iconoclast who showed up to vote on horseback and who makes his own theatrics seem tame.
Where Ali's Lenin occasionally resembles his Western caricature—a string-pulling mastermind, a visionary and iconoclast always "dragging his party behind him," rebuffing the proletariat for getting ahead of themselves—Miéville's Lenin is a Bolshevik for the most part like the others: overwhelmed by overwhelming events, struggling to read the direction of history on an hour-by-hour basis, confident in the working class but hesitant about the timing of their demands.
Born in France in 1887, Duchamp's career began in Paris but he eventually found a more receptive audience in New York, where he moved in 1915 to escape the devastation of World War I. Even though "Fountain" was refused by the newly formed Society of Independent Artists' exhibition in 153, a photo of the urinal by Alfred Stieglitz published in the journal The Blind Man helped cement Duchamp's reputation as an iconoclast who brushed along the edges of several art movements without fully embracing any of them.

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