JON PARELES Of course, what's subversive about it is that it's not subversive at all.
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I would emphasize subtle but crucial words here: possibility to act as subversive, not being subversive.
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It is very subversive to be truthful and it is very subversive to just kind of the innocence of things as they are.
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"Having kind of mainstream acts alongside more subversive ones - maybe that brings out the subversive ones more," said Elliot Galvin, keyboard player in jazz band Dinosaur.
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And they had no idea how subversive it really was.
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Everything in Girls Night Out bounces with subversive, bubbling vivacity.
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Another area of the villa spotlights Hirst's more subversive style.
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Other investors include Subversive Capital, Silver Spike Capital, and Bolt.
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Pakistan claims that India, too, has covertly sponsored subversive groups.
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But maybe we can like pink now and it's subversive?
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The most subversive selection might be its director, John Lee.
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It's not some sort of subversive political statement, then. No!
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Subversive really seems to be the mantra of Riverdale, huh?
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If Faye is invisible, the subversive Cusk is the outlaw.
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Yu's ideas were revolutionary and utterly subversive in that context.
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Subversive market research The breakfast incident helped turn the tide.
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A man celebrating himself in makeup is a subversive act.
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That may be the most subversive thing about it, actually.
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It was called Carefree White Girl, a (then) subversive sendup.
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Beyoncé continues to be more subversive as her fame grows.
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Let Romanians watch them, hear some subversive messages, and laugh.
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Any mention of it on social media is considered subversive.
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In its day, "The Art of Biblical Narrative" was subversive.
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"It's much more subversive than a buffed bunny," he said.
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Readers who liked it saw an author being intentionally subversive.
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It's a pretty subversive approach for a show to take.
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If that were all, "Simplicius" might not seem especially subversive.
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In its blasé way, "Don't Call Me Son" is subversive.
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She's just using it in subtle and occasionally subversive ways.
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And yet, in its own way, Tall Girl is subversive.
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This conclusion has subversive implications for the charter school movement.
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So reading certainly has moral value — and is increasingly subversive.
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Because Islam introduced literacy, it had pervasive and subversive impact.
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It's not groundbreakingly subversive, but it's alternately funny and creepy.
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And it is a revolutionary act — truth is always subversive.
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Yet taken alone, it doesn't feel particularly pointed or subversive.
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The Green Book was subversive in another way as well.
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In the two Forward pieces, the term "subversive" is used.
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Her voyage takes place on a more intimate, subversive level.
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Having a name for this felt powerful, subversive, and meaningful.
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Back then, the games I played were creative, weird, and often incredibly subversive, because the relatively low barrier to entry allowed a flood of creative, weird and subversive people to make things and share them.
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" The second, a "subversive portrayal" – a role based on " 'ethnic' terrain.
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Serge Gainsbourg: humorous, provocative, satirical, and/or a subversive musical genius.
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It was an escape from the mainstream and it was subversive.
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They're more appetizers and pops of subversive wit than main dishes.
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Other targets, from Khrushchev to hipsters, received the same subversive treatment.
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Enjoy browsing the subversive, satirical and above all politically ambiguous artwork!
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Kudos to you for the subversive premium seating ticket giveaway, too.
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The structures can feel subversive just because they still stubbornly exist.
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But it is becoming an increasingly dangerous tool for subversive activity.
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And in that way, it feels almost more subversive and contemporary.
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I had some subversive instincts as well—just not necessarily blue.
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While the results are actually pretty expected, they're also deeply subversive.
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Art and comedy unquestionably have subversive power and so can symbols.
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People here do [racism] in such a nice and subversive way.
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The first is artistic; the second is a little more subversive.
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It's subversive and bitter and warm all at the same time.
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Baidu, the Chinese answer to Google, blocks potentially subversive search results.
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And we're not just talking about subversive baking or dirty pastries.
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Her policies, even where bold, are hardly on the subversive fringe.
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This will seem impossibly pretentious to some, thrillingly subversive to others.
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In reality, Ms. Cusset's text is less subversive than her title.
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This is when Game of Thrones' subversive element really kicked in.
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Was he afraid of retribution because his drawings were too subversive?
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A new book includes subversive images taken during China's Cultural Revolution.
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Food, she said, can be a subversive vehicle for social change.
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Even so, subversive political movements attract eccentrics, and eccentrics arrive early.
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Even popular books might be sexy, gritty, shocking, subversive, morally provocative.
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It feels subversive and pleasurable, like — well, like sleeping with strangers.
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Why do people celebrate these subversive holiday films and not others?
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Only by doing something subversive could artists get their message across.
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Blume praised "subversive" books for the ways they developed her imagination.
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Back in the 1950s, this twist would have been truly subversive.
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Matt's movement joins an undercurrent of subversive churches running through the city.
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Due to the subversive nature of the crime, it earned international attention.
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Today some would call him a subversive operative of the Deep State.
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Because you never really know who you're talking to, advertising becomes subversive.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini: Subversive Prophet is on view February 12–May 31.
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Wet N' Wild Glitter Eye Shadow —> Pat McGrath Mothership III: Subversive Palette
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That may be the most subversive aspect of Trier's superhero movie riff.
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Her ideas and independence are considered worse than unladylike – they're dangerous. Subversive.
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There's always a wild child of the bunch, though... and that's Subversive.
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Does this popularity suggest that his plays have lost their subversive edge?
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He'd have to do something vaguely subversive to win this national championship.
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But the feds are fighting back, using even more subversive legal tactics.
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They thought of homosexuality as a threatening, subversive presence that could organize.
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The well established use of social media by subversive elements is incontrovertible.
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"He had this sort of weird subversive upper hand," Dweezil says laughing.
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Hackers might push subversive messages onto North Korea's 3m-odd mobile phones.
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" To uncover this subversive text, Kelly argues, "we have to read carefully.
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It's also classic troll behavior: cruel, biting, and a little bit subversive.
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Tina Landau directs this subversive study of faith and family (4803:00).
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Tina Landau directs this subversive study of faith and family (2:00).
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It was also seen as subversive and a sign of moral weakness.
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These men and boys make the subversive power of makeup crystal clear.
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But VanderMeer's take on the postapocalyptic fantasy is not without subversive ambition.
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Recent years have seen a flowering of subversive feminist writing on desire.
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His art — subversive, erotic drawings of hyper-muscular men — offered an escape.
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Brendan Fernandes brings his subversive take on dance and art to museums.
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Active measures are not necessarily limited to pamphleteering and subversive media work.
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Some see a subversive message about Washington's failings; others see his glorification.
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If Smith was the ultimate establishment figure, Hume was the ultimate subversive.
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If the show was somewhat subversive for religious fare, it wasn't disrespectful.
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She didn't realize what kind of subversive, morbid glory was in there.
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Saint Margaret's first impression in stained glass may not strike as subversive.
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Ramos said Jesus' death was a subversive act, not a submissive one.
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And documentary filmmakers have been at the country's subversive and experimental forefront.
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The most satisfying and subversive musical ever to come out of Britain.
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But that sleek, zingy sexiness is just where their subversive attraction lies.
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In short, Booksmart's costumes feel just as subversive as the film itself.
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The sport of writing in a tightly organized genre like popular song is not to smuggle in specifically subversive subtext when the censors aren't looking but to make the subversive emotions universal enough not to need a subtext.
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The works in this show emphasize touch, materiality, the sensual, and the subversive.
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So, if the film was aiming to be subversive, it missed the mark.
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VRV is the sister label offshoot headed by Droid Behavior residents Raíz & Subversive.
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It has a provocative, maybe even subversive course title: Hacking for Defense (H4D).
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It's nothing subversive or anything like that; just a brief utterance of thanks.
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There's an extra-special subversive twist here, one that's optimized to spread misery.
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And the plain text somehow makes the often spicy subject matter more subversive.
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Is a raised fist a sign of free speech or subversive political expression?
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But she's slyly subversive and wittier than her image gives her credit for.
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There will be a couple of Instagram moments, but in a subversive way.
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Who thought to bring this raw, subversive work to Netflix's growing comedy lineup?
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Sure, this may not seem so subversive to someone unfamiliar with Turkish politics.
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I certainly never thought it was subversive to society — only to good taste.
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For all we know, the mutant instantly grew her own subversive armpit carpeting.
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In that sense, there is subversive and untapped power in the melting pot.
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If it's more subversive, real world horror you're after, hit up It Follows.
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Before he created those iconic kids' shows, Henson was a subversive experimental filmmaker.
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China's thousands of censors have ramped up efforts to block subversive online messages.
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BrazilBrazil's beauty is passionate, subversive, mystical, and in plain sight, all at once.
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But his anecdotes, like many of his lyrics, have a bitter, subversive undertone.
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The documentary's subversive quality lies in how Mr. Mansky chose to shoot it.
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The subversive combo of apprehension and cuteness, she says, resonates particularly with women.
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Sometimes it's not necessarily about being outright with it, it's about being subversive.
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The Attorney General's List of Subversive Organizations — effectively a blacklist — was also issued.
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This novel is generous without prejudice, which feels at once subversive and refreshing.
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"For [gay men] it's [sis] subversive because they challenge hegemonic masculinity," Holliday says.
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The formula of pop song plus subversive video no longer feels as relevant.
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"This is some serious next level subversive shit for their audience," Cote affirmed.
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Here's a breakdown of the music, the moves and that subversive studded armband.
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Take in the subversive beauty of J'ouvert, a Caribbean street party in Brooklyn.
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We must flood the country with USB sticks and literature with subversive content.
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What makes You subversive, brilliant television is delightfully simple: Joe is an idiot.
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Hoggard is still playing into this role as the spontaneous, subversive rock star.
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Today we are used to thinking of graffiti as somehow subversive or illegal.
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Each room is filled with unsettling, subversive art pieces that critique organized religion.
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Which, for a pop star of his status, is an increasingly subversive move.
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The experience will be at once satisfying, surprising and subversive—I can't wait!
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But you're not going to do that, because you're a socially engaged human being and it's time to accept that we need a subversive, angry, bleak, and cynical film to match our subversive, angry, bleak, and cynical hearts this Christmas.
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With its rigid propriety, Social Usage could hardly have propounded a more subversive idea.
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The women and men wearing it aren't sweet and submissive — they're smart and subversive.
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But there's really nothing subversive at all, except that it subverts dependence on others.
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The subversive industry is feared by the establishment, with investors reliant on legal loopholes.
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We compiled the best of bandleader Questlove's cleverly subversive ditties for recent political guests.
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Since at least 2013, China has been cracking down on subversive Hong Kong publishers.
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Pachucos subversive aesthetic became notorious, enraging establishment types on both sides of the border.
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Merriam-Webster's young social-media team has carried on a kind of subversive empiricism.
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After all, one John Cena butt-chugging scene does not a subversive film make.
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But, she does use the guise of feminine acceptability to its most subversive ends.
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This funny, sexy, and subversive take on the "biker bad boy" trope is fantastic.
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Let's move on with our New Year by being a little subversive: Your thoughts?
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Its most subversive achievement is the way it makes Russian sympathizers of us all.
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That's the terror of zombie movies, and it's also the subversive fun of them.
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The captured boat was carrying weapons "for subversive purposes", the brief SPA report said.
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Just months after release, Playdead's subversive and creepy puzzle platformer, Inside, has removed Denuvo.
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Some people enjoy professional spoils from viral fame, even when they are being subversive.
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Undercover detectives routinely infiltrated political organizations and followed outspoken activists they deemed potentially subversive.
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All of this melded into the subversive nature of the nascent Internet and DInc.
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Maybe Mem Fox was detained in the US for her subversive works 😒 pic.twitter.
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Anyway, so took the photo to be like subversive, I'd say, more than funny.
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This ultra-orthodox approach would have benefitted from a more subversive or sarcastic presentation.
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In this case, that idea is the weird, seemingly subversive world of professional mascotting.
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It might be hard to understand how a dictionary could have been deemed 'subversive.
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In the 1840s, Jane's love for herself was so subversive it bordered on revolution.
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Brooklyn is so progressive, so I wouldn't even consider having a beard subversive there.
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A safety pin, a stupid hat: These seem like truly subversive concepts to you.
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In 2011, Ai himself was arrested for allegedly publishing subversive material on his blog.
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In Syria, this attachment becomes dangerous, and not only because of Presley's subversive music.
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His meaning was deeper and more subversive than some of his songs might suggest.
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Back then, Vital Signs soulful songs about love, heartbreak and disillusionment were deeply subversive.
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To make it even more subversive, shouldn't you give it to rich white men?
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This blistering — yet secretly tender — subversive rom-com is back for its third season.
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If not exactly subversive or conceptual, and undeniably repetitive, the collection still had depth.
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Some denounce them as evidence of subversive sabotage by hangovers from a prior administration.
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Letting nonengineers interact directly with a computer was seen as harebrained, utopian—subversive, even.
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This subversive aspect of Carnival is probably something that would never fly with Trump.
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Now the work — subversive, hilarious, and potent — is free to stand on its own.
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We use a lot of embellishment and color, mixed with subversive concepts and humor.
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It also proves illusionary the Baudrillardian ideal of subversive conformity popular in the 1980s.
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I don't know that he always realizes how inventive he is, or how subversive.
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Western unity in repudiating the Kremlin, an exodus from eastern Ghouta and subversive knitting.
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The thoughtful and companionable humor of "Shrill" belies its subversive manifesto about self-liberation.
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PB: One sense is that when jurors nullify, they think of it as subversive.
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Among a younger, savvier audience, the implication of sex wasn't subversive; it was hackneyed.
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"I'm very drawn to subversive comedy like Alexander Payne and Jason Reitman," she said.
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Her tone was playfully subversive — it was a warning as much as an announcement.
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He then went on a diatribe against a website whose work he considered subversive.
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Ms. Manning's atypical identity adds a frisson of subversion to her already subversive acts.
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Sobriety, and the refusal to partake in alcogenic culture, is subversive, rebellious, and edgy.
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As reprehensible and manipulative as she is, Madame Satan is also a subversive delight.
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Onstage or off duty, sex workers' accouterments form the subversive foundation of role play.
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You know, the ones that cast her as a quietly subversive, cutting-edge rebel.
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It's a fantastic film—smart, subversive, with eminently welcome hip swivels by Oscar Isaac.
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His songs were smart, sometimes a bit subversive, provocative, even quirky, but always interesting.
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In light of this example, does anyone still think Kander's Trump picture is subversive?
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Triple Candie were, depending whom you ask, either subversive and brilliant or irrationally misguided.
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The term is always charged somehow, freighted with meaning and potential conflict, vaguely subversive.
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DJ Harvey has been bringing a subversive, punk-rock attitude to disco dancefloors for decades.
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Madonna has always been an example of a strong, subversive woman in the music industry.
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White Girl might follow a coke binge, but it's telling a much more subversive story.
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There was a time where it was subversive, frowned upon, and sometimes even outright divisive.
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It doesn't need to be tediously explained, it can just be an enjoyable, subversive factor.
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Videla and his fellow coup leaders promised to defeat what they described as subversive groups.
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Simply holding up a sign of any sort is considered subversive enough to merit arrest.
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And for devout members like Fisher, seeking answers from outside sources is often deemed subversive.
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The debaters have become popular and subversive figures in recent years within their ideological subcultures.
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The thrill of an excellent pop record is already subversive; delight is disruptive by definition.
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But with heterosexual rough sex [where men are dom tops], that's not at all subversive.
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Though unexpected, the optical details of Forero's work read as playful and friendly, not subversive.
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I think subversion feels inspiring, and right now what feels subversive is pink and flowers.
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How can Melehi's subversive, often site-specific practice, be displayed in a converted London townhouse?
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I think that they operate in a very different way, a more subversive way actually.
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Then we end with a parting shot of subversive fun courtesy of television's favorite hacker.
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Regime consolidation over ashes still can be useful for illicit businesses and regionally subversive operations.
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Now there was a genuinely subversive piece of art: gay men celebrating the orange Antichrist!
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Osakwe is obsessed with the female form and seduction, subversive interests for a Nigerian woman.
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It's easy to forget how jaw-droppingly subversive the White Album opener was in 1968.
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Heretofore, the malfeasance and misdemeanor have had no confessed ideological purposes, no constitutionally subversive ends.
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Attacking Trump isn't in itself subversive—and there's a Goldilocks dynamic to the whole endeavor.
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Too extreme for mainstream success, too subversive to fit neatly within their own respective circles.
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DeviantArt, as its name would imply, is home to bizarre, subversive, occasionally downright unsettling works.
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Even as a kid, I knew that there was something deliciously subversive happening on screen.
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I fear a loss of our subversive, loving, critical, expansive, creative, perverted, sexy, NSFW status.
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Her music, which takes the rules of pop and crystallises them into subversive, pristine formations.
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" Greece and Cyprus were found to have shown "no meaningful resistance to Russia's subversive activities.
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This series is impossible to classify; genre elements mingle in mythical and gleefully subversive ways.
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Ms. Lucas remains a wonderfully bold and subversive model for women in this #MeToo moment.
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Everything about the work in Yun-Fei Ji's show "Rumors, Ridicules and Retributions" is subversive.
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But there is something very subversive about a strong woman dressing like a femme fatale.
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" He added, "That is what I am primarily concerned with in terms of subversive activities.
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But its resistance to a vision of perpetual self-improvement makes the book quietly subversive.
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In the futuristic "Arlington," a prisoner and the man monitoring her attempt a subversive romance.
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But teachers are given a wide berth to teach topics that Beijing sees as subversive.
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Reactionaries imagined themselves squeezed between globalist Jewish bankers above and subversive Jewish refugee hordes below.
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Teachers have to watch what they say — students are required to report any subversive comments.
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"In reality, much of the most interesting science fiction is much more subversive," he continued.
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This brand of sly, subversive humor has become a hallmark of the Hong Kong protests.
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This was his winning intuition: that he could triumph as the subversive plain-speaking outsider.
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Jackson's novel is so wonderfully creepy that students usually feel subversive just for reading it.
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The police found materials that were deemed to be subversive, making it subject to closure.
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But there was a time when clothing could still be permeated with biting subversive potential.
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At this stage, these jobs have to entail being more subversive, more biting, more serious.
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Its title, Acts of Sedition, refers to subversive acts by individuals against institutions of power.
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At the same time, we're at a point where laughing is a subversive act now.
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To that end, they praised Pixar's Wall-E as a surprisingly subversive mishmash of genres.
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Accordingly, Jafri's three small installations from the project are as deceptively innocent as they are subversive.
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Keep reading to hear all about Amazon's brand new "subversive feminist agenda," as Creed-Miles says.
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Playing with that juxtaposition was an essential part of the subversive feminist agenda that takes place.
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The subversive YouTubers over at Aunty Donna have written a protest song disguised as a carol.
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Photo: GettyFew people would think of the British cartoon character Peppa Pig as a subversive icon.
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Son of Schmilsson is perched at the perfect midpoint between his pop perfection and subversive imagination.
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He attributed differences in policy and "subversive" tactics by President Donald Trump's appointees for his departure.
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It's easy to imagine the show's subversive effervescence getting crushed under the weight of additional explanations.
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His output was bawdy and "populaire", executed in a graphic style rife with subversive noir humour.
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And if Berlin rules apply, the most subversive, unusual places always crop up in the East.
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But Tieryas puts a cyberpunk twist on the story, involving subversive video games and giant mecha.
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Gentrification has been so thoroughly demonised that a mere discussion of its benefits might seem subversive.
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Mr Shulkin told reporters that he had been given him the authority to purge "subversive" staff.
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Subversive Capital led, and was joined by return backers like Apeiron Investment Group and Bail Capital.
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It is no question that the narratives depicted in cinema have been more subversive than ever.
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Simply sharing or "liking" commentary that the regime deems subversive has landed hapless netizens in prison.
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This is a subversive world where men fight to simply get a seat at the table.
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After Friday's court decision on Friday, the Kenyan censor said it still considered Rafiki morally subversive.
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The beastial images are certainly subversive, but they also suggest that animals make great cuddle buddies.
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However, strapping on can also be a form of subversive, gender-fucking sex with liberating possibilities.
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I find it comforting and empowering that women are actively engaging in subversive and transgressive acts.
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It makes light of an actual death, but there's nothing daring or subversive going on here.
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I honestly love the idea of the subversive stitch where you reclaim that form of craft.
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Is it subversive—or cathartic, or even therapeutic—to expose the ugliest ways people see you?
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Carroll's deeply subversive, nonsensical embrace of the absurd and truly strange has been mostly painted over.
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Confession strikes me as crucial to mental health, but I've always considered it a subversive act.
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That thought was so subversive, so unChinese, that in 2013 it was officially, though secretly, condemned.
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He was voted into this year's All-Star Game by fans as a runaway subversive joke.
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She isn't a sensualist shape-shifter like FKA twigs or a subversive formalist like St. Vincent.
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There are subversive streaks of feminism amidst the hellfire of the hilarious prank war that ensues.
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Others are heavy costumes de Nieves wears in his performances, frozen in subversive or menacing poses.
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He and other young Ufologists perceive the UFO community and discourse as counter-cultural, subversive even.
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But the things that pique my interest the most are the very small, very subversive synchronicities.
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But the romantic mood has only continued under Piccioli, combined with a cooler, more subversive poetry.
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Mr. Norris's undeniably dexterous hand is most effective — and subversive — when it tickles, instead of bludgeons.
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We are social animals, and most of us would be uncomfortable with being seen as subversive.
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They also poke fun at crossword convention, too, and that appealed to the subversive in me.
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They also poke fun at crossword convention, too, and that appealed to the subversive in me.
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He focused on people on government watch lists, searching their mobile phones for content considered subversive.
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In a Doris Day world on the cusp of the feminist movement, the semiotics were subversive.
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Its theatre and film directors, with their quietly subversive messages, were revered across the Soviet Union.
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We also covered Subversive Capital's $225 million raise for a SPAC real estate investment trust.-Jeremy
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In June 19833, the Congolese authorities accused him subversive activities and expelled him from the country.
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More discreet but no less subversive are the clergy's efforts to protect witnesses of police abuses.
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When operettas enjoyed a resurgence after World War II, they were desexualized, sunny and hardly subversive.
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More than two decades in, his "in the bad guy's head" schtick is no longer subversive.
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They traded accusations of being Mafiosi, subversive, hatemongers, Russian trolls, flat-earthers and everything in between.
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Teachers suspected of dissent were punished, and textbooks were rewritten to weed out material deemed subversive.
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"Little Women," written and directed by Gerwig, is a subversive new take on a classic novel.
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Most critics were won over by "The Boys"' irreverent, subversive take on superheroes in pop culture.
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"There's something so subversive and yet loving about technology at the same time, right?" he says.
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The Spanish saw it as subversive, linked to pre-Columbian festivities and beliefs, and banned it.
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On niche forums from 4chan to closed Facebook groups, memes peddling subversive or insular humor — e.g.
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Since Mr. Jatar's arrest, the government has intensified its focus on arresting those it deems subversive.
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Of course, not everyone applauds the appropriation by corporate marketing departments of a once-subversive practice.
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"When you saw them perform, they seemed highly subversive and highly uncontainable," said Mr. Mills, laughing.
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Many sketches from the show remain incredibly funny, and would still seem subversive and wild today.
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Here, all of Valentin's artistic preoccupations come together: dramatic interaction, kinetic force, and subversive sexual subtext.
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Never mind being queer or trans—in those days, anything other than heterosexual was considered subversive.
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Despite the fake names, the fact no raids and no punishments will result, this essay is subversive.
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I wouldn't necessarily call it subversive if someone wants to look smart and enjoy a natural pleasure.
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There was just subversive musical numbers, sexy trophy boys, and good, old-fashioned roasting of industry elites.
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The smart, subversive Zootopia charmed everyone early on, as did a strong remake of The Jungle Book.
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But I just think there's nothing subversive about just straight-up mimicry, you know what I mean?
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As a last-minute, desperate, subversive act against human stupidity and cruelty, art had to be public.
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She made clear she believes Omar, a hijab-wearing African refugee, was a subversive threat to America.
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Brosch entangles women's objectification with environmental degradation as subversive mermaids that bend the rules in polluted water.
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So her studio imagined a series of subversive, welcoming "barriers" made of lighthouses, hammocks, and pipe organs.
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Is there anything more subversive than tweeting simple emoji instead of participating in arguments with actual words?
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To play the game that way would be the defeat of Dave Chappelle the subversive comic champion.
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That winking, subversive humor is on display in the very first video that made Haley TikTok famous.
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On Monday, Supreme announced its latest offering, a collection created with iconic, subversive American photographer Nan Goldin.
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The act of getting a tattoo has long been a socially subversive strand of counterculture in Russia.
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It's an outrageous, brilliant phenomenon concocted by either a single subversive genius or a group of them.
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But that doesn't mean Christopher Robin doesn't traverse some intriguing and subversive terrain on its way there.
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Her parents were Polish, though they hid it; mustn't speak the language, mustn't practise that subversive Christianity!
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But when I stepped in the elevator, I was a subversive temporary graffiti artist, not unlike Banksy.
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The company committed to a wide release and has put real promotional dollars behind the subversive comedy.
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Their second album feels subversive, weird, and elastic, a stamp on pop that could only be theirs.
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It's not subversive or unexpected, but the emotions are so precisely rendered as to feel compelling anyway.
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I'm turned on by him being turned on, and excited by the subversive casualness of the sex.
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So too is the discovery of subversive attachments between ourselves—premised not on terror, but on solidarity.
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In an era of empowerment feminism, her desperate, sensual, subversive pop dug deeply into the human experience.
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Obvious as that statement seems, it feels subtly subversive in some circles inside St. Louis and beyond.
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Lines and lines of smiley-face emojis flooded the article's comments section in a quietly subversive protest.
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Rather, her goofy, light-hearted touch allows her subversive satire to cross over to a broader audience.
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Its goal of 'outing' professors for their views helps to create the appearance of something secretly subversive.
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It's the same with fan communities: It's nice to have what feels like a subversive taste approved.
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The freshest example in film is sneakily packaged in what was hailed as a subversive, feminist comedy.
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If you think about it, there is something quite subversive about the way the movie business works.
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Underlying many of Doki Doki Literature Club's subversive elements are familiar tropes of anime and visual novels.
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The work is difficult, funny, powerful, mightily subversive, and a testament to the depth of his focus.
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This has been an endeavor by turns deeply serious, deliberately subversive, and flamboyantly exciting, depending on context.
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Print magazines, and underground zines in particular offered entry into subversive music scenes the mainstream media shunned.
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Until then, Saudi Arabia will make a lot of noise and attempt subversive activities, but nothing more.
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And I'd love to be able to say that there's sly, subversive method in his madcappery here.
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The course has the anodyne title "The Economist's View of the World," but its purpose is subversive.
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The subversive cadre of women over 60 prove that "old" is not what it used to be.
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The show does get off to a slightly subversive start, before the Trek-tech piety sets in.
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Mr. Stanfield likes to inject his press appearances with a bit of subversive je ne sais quoi.
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The magazine was founded in 1974 by Tom Forcade as a subversive record of the marijuana counterculture.
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Its goal of "outing" professors for their views helps to create the appearance of something secretly subversive.
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What he read felt impressively subversive, and he immediately began envisioning what he would do with it.
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Monday's event showed how the contemporary street-party version of the holiday retains a subversive, liberating edge.
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"I think making jokes is always a way of being subversive without being directly confrontational," she says.
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But officials say dwelling on such events is subversive "historical nihilism" aimed at corroding the party's authority.
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From maximalist pajamas to subversive Swedish men's wear, T featured a range of emerging brands in 2017.
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As Smalls has pointed out, in its full context, "Portrait" is not a wildly politically subversive image.
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While he doesn't deny Russia's involvement or subversive intent, he believes their impact has been wildly overstated.
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Of course, many attempts at subversive satire will fall flat, coming off as more tasteless than witty.
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He explained that moving toward mediums traditionally considered "craft" allowed a more subversive conversation that he desired.
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Americans struggled with this idea that popular culture, their popular culture, could be subversive in this way.
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In Intimate Immensity at PAFA, touch, materiality, the sensual, and the subversive are part of a feminist lineage.
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When it's a woman showing impressive endurance, however, it comes across as subversive, and more empowering for it.
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The Chinese government is highly sensitive to attempts to organize protests or support what it considers subversive messages.
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By the late 1960s and early 1970s, Bowie had emerged as one of the most subversive artists around.
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Granted, he did not frame Iggy Pop Life Class as a subversive act, but that's not his style.
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It's essentially a subversive Riot Grrl manifesto against misogynist boors disguised within the spaced-out keys of techno.
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The final product is a travesty that is clearly trying to be subversive but ends up being offensive.
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But there are also blistering tales of child marriage, polygamy and philandering; subversive stuff for a conservative region.
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For some people, the sense that something is forbidden or subversive is at the core of their interest.
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Iran has a record of subversive action and supporting allied militias in the region—and of attacking shipping.
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She's a feminist and she pushes the idea of being a woman with a quirkiness and being subversive.
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In this world, Tieryas puts a cyberpunk twist on the story, using subversive video games and giant mecha.
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Their style is minimal and borders on "normcore," but without the subversive edge that characterized its early iteration.
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In Canada, the authorities interned many Witnesses during the war on grounds that they were a "subversive" force.
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Mr Liu's stories are scientifically rigorous; Mr Han's are allegorical and uncanny—but also grittier and more subversive.
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There's a way that he is telling a kind of narrative in history that is kind of subversive.
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"The show is a weird, subversive, tiny little show," said Sam Esmail, the creator, holding his Golden Globe.
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You scratch my back, I'll track, hunt, and turn over this "subversive" who's causing you problems from abroad.
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It's obviously flawed, but I find that the text is subversive and somewhat revolutionary at the same time.
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She's a cultural icon, best known for being an absolute savage and for being subversive symbol in China.
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The procession of amateur performers has itself become a more subversive act in an increasingly regulated city space.
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Others, like columnist George Will, even flirted with the fantasy that Trump was some sort of deliberate subversive.
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Sweetly subversive, the result was Instagrammed to the nines, and the wooden cake kept as a collector's item.
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A president may also remove subversive elements in the nation itself, that is not what Erdogan has done.
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But when that pastor is Bell and he's speaking in the heart of the Bible Belt, it's subversive.
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The Club Kids brought queerness, gender fluidity, and groundbreaking fashion to the national dialogue in a subversive way.
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Their subversive and often humorous paintings, performances, prints, collages and texts have lost none of their provocative power.
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Consider the three main types of subversive attacks on democratic societies: cybersecurity hacking, financial corruption, and information warfare.
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"In this humility-poor environment, the idea of disruption appeals as a kind of subversive provocation," she writes.
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The agents were instructed to carry out sabotage and other subversive activities, standard C.I.A. procedure around the world.
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"NATO is more important than ever with Russia's growing subversive activities in the region and beyond," Rubio said.
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"American Housewife," an awful attempt to transplant "Roseanne" into the age of economic inequality, mistakes sophomoric for subversive.
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They're going to keep trying to do this so we have to be aware of this subversive lobbying.
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Growing pressure for independence, however, prompted colonial government to ban the flags as subversive, and most were destroyed.
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I've since read others of Garth's comics, and he has this way of just being so cheekily subversive.
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Sex—or Hefner's Pepsi-clean version of it—was there to legitimize what was truly subversive about Playboy.
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By 2008, they took on a more subversive, futuristic-looking form — one-half Matrix, one-half sex shop.
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When a one enters this place in such subversive art forms, the likelihood of survival always seems unlikely.
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He explains that originally the main objective was a subversive kind of fun—trolling aimed at the establishment.
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"We will resolutely confront aggressive threats and subversive activities," King Salman said on Twitter as the summit began.
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Pop-punk showed another way—and of the class of '21970, the most subversive band was the Undertones.
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The subversive nature of the culture was attractive, and its ability to shed my youthful preconceptions was welcoming.
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It appealed to the girl who isn't the typical fashion girl, who's interested in being a little subversive.
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Those tactics have included the direct control of fake social media accounts and manual drafting of subversive messages.
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Mapplethorpe captured subversive, alternative subcultures while also shining a spotlight on high society and the cult of celebrity.
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The alternative is an abrasive self-consciousness that pretends to be subversive but quickly turns sour and cynical.
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In 0003, age 17, Mr. Ivanyi was expelled from school for writing an essay the authorities deemed subversive.
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Sex — or Hefner's Pepsi-clean version of it — was there to legitimize what was truly subversive about Playboy.
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Lim Hyeon-soo, to hard labor for life on charges of carrying out "subversive plots" against North Korea.
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But Mr. Berger, the Red Bull's founding artistic director, has staged his "Government Inspector" with a subversive straightforwardness.
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Can you think of other art forms that were once subversive and are now part of the mainstream?
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Its title was "Two Class Acts," referring to subversive intellectual exploration, theatrical performance and honorable behavior under siege.
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In a subversive move, attendees at Def Con will be able to attend its first Voting Machine Village.
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Indeed, some scenes remain more subversive than much of the work currently being made by self-styled radicals.
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The Chinese Communist Party rightly fears that idea as subversive and threatening to its cultish mind-controlling dictatorship.
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Unfortunately, the show isn't actually interested in being as subversive or different as it leads you to believe.
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By the time Burr Leonard became a certified instructor in 1990, barre had gone from subversive to staid.
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State telecoms regulator POTRAZ said in a statement it would arrest people sending "subversive" messages that cause unrest.
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A bust of King at the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa, may have been the most subversive.
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It's bracing to experience this reverse and sometimes subversive angle on the great good cause of our time.
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To put it bluntly, the covers of mainstream American magazines are not where you will find subversive photography.
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Say whatever you want about the pictures Greenberg produced; whether you like them or not, aren't they subversive?
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Mass Effect 23's ending is bold, subversive, interesting—and often called the worst video game ending ever.
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Reclaiming this imagery and using it in fine art gallery setting is in of itself a subversive gesture.
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Back then, skateboarding had some mainstream appeal but it was largely subversive and misunderstood by most non-skaters.
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Snowden praised Stone's finished product — but he also is clearly a fan of the director's subversive body of work.
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Motherboard stories should be human, subversive, fun, raw, welcoming, and perhaps even a bit sketchy, but above all smart.
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Yes, recreational cannabis is legal in California, but I'd convinced myself I was somehow being subversive with this ruse.
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" The New York Times said the trilogy "may well hold the most subversive message in children's literature in years.
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He's the boy that publicly prides himself on his knowledge of critical theory, radical politics and all things subversive.
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The choice to hang a work in public reminding neighbors of some unpleasant history is slyly subversive, but abrasive.
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However, like most "subversive" games, these themes apply to the story and characters and not the game design itself.
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In short, Mr Hislop and Tom Hockenhull, his co-curator, scoured the British Museum's collection to find things subversive.
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In the 1980s he was marked out as "subversive" for his earlier campus activism as a student at Oxford.
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Feature After disappearing for nearly three decades, Paul Reubens's subversive alter ego returns — and seems more radical than ever.
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Vasudevan shares with The Creators Project the technical side of mining troves of data to form her subversive art.
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For a religion that was once subversive, Jones hints, being countercultural may just be the ideal way to be.
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Simply stated, it is the subversive use of computers and computer networks to promote a political or social agenda.
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But the court wasn't willing to hear that, and forced the subversive Kwon to lay out his political beliefs.
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Subversive Capital, a cannabis investor financed by the Peter Thiel-backed Privateer Holdings, also committed capital to the round.
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"Genero has had a pretty big impact," said Jen Pearson, who also books shows with Vancouver techno collective Subversive.
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Animaniacs was able to be subversive in a way that its toy-driven competitors could not afford to be.
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Garry Shandling's sly, subversive wit and meta take on the vagaries of showbiz truly made him a comic's comic.
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"I loved how subversive [that moment] was, and how it's [playing with] conventional norms around feminine beauty," Gurira continues.
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Throughout his work, there is a unique and gleefully subversive celebration of qualities oft-maligned: sloth, sensitivity, even servility.
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Proponents of the law said that the restrictions helped prevent "subversive acts" from activist groups, according to the Register.
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She continues to blog, and she has found ways to pursue a similar subversive mission in the new medium.
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This creates an interesting frisson within an exhibition that is both masterly and radical, traditional in feel yet subversive.
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The government, which denied cutting service, warned that people using social media to spread "subversive" messages would be arrested.
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Publishing even a soft-core sex magazine was a subversive act in the gray-flanneled world of the 1950s.
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As a result, an old-fashioned Pee-wee flick can't help feeling quaint by comparison, subversive edge or not.
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What makes Lorena's story so captivating—and why we are still talking about it today—is its subversive nature.
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McGrath calls it "alien-gelic" — a cool, subversive take on a strobe that is less shimmery and more dewy.
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That support is the bright spot in a tale of "subversion" that was more gross and sad than subversive.
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Most importantly, though, he believes this subversive culture he is cultivating will also help evangelize the alt-right cause.
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You've used street art techniques yourself in subversive ways though—as with your more recent work Liberté Égalité Soldes.
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Smart, clever, funny, and subversive, no other game in 2016 had me uttering "holy shit" as much as SUPERHOT.
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And there's something a bit subversive in using a computer, the hub of our digital distraction, for this solace.
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But the Kenya Film Classification Board, which banned the movie in April, said it still considered "Rafiki" morally subversive.
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That to me was very subversive, to get on TV, to get on MTV and in the mainstream media.
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China's censors are notoriously sensitive not just to subversive political content, but also references to sex, drugs and religion.
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By my lights, Frozen 2 is still a plenty enjoyable film, even if it lacks its predecessor's subversive spark.
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He presents us with a subversive, primal being who does not care about being judged or seen as weird.
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The government considered fax machines subversive; they took a boat trip to Thailand to communicate with the outside world.
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Ruff's digital composites are politically subversive — and, at their best, disruptive of the entire technical process of image sharing.
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Kushner's portrait of Romy's anarchic, near-orphaned childhood in San Francisco is a great, subversive portrait of the city.
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Her goal is to gain a larger audience for the younger artists she cultivates without diluting their subversive charisma.
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It has been said that things are subversive when they do not correspond to discipline or the social order.
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His pictures, only four in all, anarchic and tender, subversive and romantic, had not yet been seen by me.
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After 10 seasons — the longest run on Cartoon Network — this subversive show wraps up with a one-hour finale.
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The dictionary project was now judged subversive, and many of those who worked on it were arrested and shot.
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During the era of post-painterly abstraction, just the fact that it was a word — any word — was subversive.
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Now it appears China's censors may have their sights on another cuddly cartoon character turned subversive symbol: Peppa Pig.
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Betsey Johnson first rose to prominence in the 1960s due to her more subversive, out-of-the-box designs.
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So is the sudden, subversive techno-layering of voices, so you're not sure where the sound is coming from.
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Pay attention to how you react to impending power struggles on Monday when the Sun squares against subversive Pluto.
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Like the best subversive games, it forces us to really consider the things we've probably been conditioned to ignore.
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"Groundhog Day" would not be nearly as effective at its subversive karmic lesson if it weren't so genuinely hilarious.
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For all its sweep and noble intentions, "Music: A Subversive History" has a limited conception of what constitutes subversion.
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The movie represents the opening of a new chapter in Jennifer Lopez's career, and that's why it's so subversive.
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Rumi the Aleppo-trained imam, whose sermons beguiled both the orthodox and the subversive of the medieval Islamic world.
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Russia said there had been "subversive policies" and interventions in Nicaragua over a long period by the United States.
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When I asked Blackmore how the group reconciles their subversive tradition with endorsing a feature film, she nodded knowingly.
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But there has never been a Super Bowl performance this subversive, militant, or flagrant in its assertion of blackness.
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"Kevin's antics will touch the budding subversive in every kid," as the Washington Post promised in its official review.
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At that time it was really subversive and shocking to take CAH and twist language around and break language.
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It's the sort of subversive flavor that makes one rethink what they know about ice cream as a whole.
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If Bioware still wants Mass Effect to explore what choices mean, it's not enough to include a subversive ending.
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So mocking someone that self-important, and the people he's surrounding himself with, is necessary and subversive and satisfying.
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Or screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson, whose very first screenplay — for Secretary — is a fine and subversive bit of adaptation?
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Fake-news hucksters, political Newspeakers, subversive reality-hackers, trickle-down deconstructionists–they're clogging the Internet with a miasma of disinformation.
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It earned a massive amount of its initial buzz because it announced itself as a subversive, smart, fun horror film.
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Perhaps a part of me felt subversive pairing provocative images with entirely unsexy passages recounting hospital admissions and calcium tablets.
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The second issue was influenced by the 70s, in particular the book Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel.
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It's still funny, referential, and subversive, but we're talking about a game that might take you eight hours to beat.
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Sex play that's outside the norm can make us feel like we're doing something subversive and getting away with it.
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Many composers were themselves black or gay, she observes, and used subversive lyrics to fight prejudice, not to entrench it.
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It also makes Disney Channel content scan as much more subversive than I would have given it credit for before.
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Suddenly, this cute, quirky show announced itself as a subversive mindfuck that successfully fooled the vast majority of its audience.
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It changed the world starting 2,000 years ago, and it is as subversive and counterintuitive today as it was then.
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The Pat McGrath Mothership III: Subversive Palette ($125) serves up beautifully pigmented, shimmery hues that are tasteful but still fun.
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At every turn, Head Over Heels makes the most subversive choices, queering a classic 16th-century text to delightful effect.
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Tommy Koh, another diplomat, urged his countrymen to prize "challengers who are subversive and who have alternate points of view".
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Earlier investors include Founders Fund, which led the company's $75 million Series B round in March 2015, and Subversive Capital.
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It is a splendid, quietly subversive, gesture by Mr Roth; a rich university would have paid handsomely for his books.
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Chinese leaders promote internet use for business and education but try to block access to material deemed subversive or obscene.
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"Even 27 years on, remembering Tiananmen is considered subversive by the authorities," said William Nee, China Researcher at Amnesty International.
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As for his campy and subversive observations, he gets away with it all without a wince from Scholastic, his publisher.
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It's quick moving, subversive, and speaks to Motherboard's mission to ensure technology is working for the people who use it.
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You said the most subversive thing in Last Jedi was Johnson getting to put his personal stamp on the property.
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That's what makes this lovely and painful novel subversive—and what makes efforts to ban it all the more misguided.
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But in one respect, the ad was so effective that it forced Google to intervene and block the subversive prompt.
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" Google celebrates anarchy as part of its edge, and in Facebook's early days, the "spirit of subversive hackery guided everything.
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The celebration often seems playfully subversive: "We swiped right" pokes fun at the earnest "she said yes!" engagement announcement refrain.
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" About the gunman: "He had a minor police record and no association with any subversive or terrorist group, Demings said.
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Ever since Margaret Atwood published The Handmaid's Tale in 1985, it's been consistently heralded as both subversive and painfully relevant.
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Erdogan says the action is necessary to root out subversive elements loyal to Gulen and to maintian stability in Turkey.
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Women continued to shine in transgressive and subversive short films which played the 32nd edition of the festival this year.
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She added that she pushes back against the industry's prepackaged image of her in small ways (like posting subversive Instagrams).
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Richard Lyons, a founding member of the subversive media-hacking, collage-minded band Negativland, died on April 22 in Seattle.
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It is changing the way people think, he says, and enhancing a subversive streak apparent everywhere among Chinese young people.
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Keep your cutesy symbol of cisnormative, white normative, made-a-supposedly-subversive-joke-about-sexual-assault accessories off her head.
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If there is something surprising, and somewhat subversive, about Girardi, it is that his favorite band is the Rolling Stones.
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Not only is it nearly impossible to fire poor performers, but even subversive employees were hard to get rid of.
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This meant that the innocent business of studying the Bible could be turned to the subversive aim of acquiring literacy.
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With subversive wit and trenchant humor, the artists in Quality Time expose the arbitrary nature of society's benchmarks for meaning.
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These malevolent actors continuously create manipulative content and shower the internet's leading platforms with their subversive falsehoods around the clock.
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In a future where everything is surveilled by computer vision algorithms, even the patterns on our clothing can be subversive.
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There were literary readings almost every night, and subversive theater that lampooned the system, using metaphors from baseball to Moliere.
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There are hoaxes designed to insinuate a subversive message through a benign-seeming work, a wolf-in-sheep's-clothing text.
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There was a subversive quality to his work and she knew she had to somehow be a part of it.
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Even though the format is six-four-two-one, in that way, that in my own small way is subversive.
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But those books, for all their soft-core covers and happily-ever-afters, were quietly and not-so-quietly subversive.
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People are afraid to carry the flag or sing the national anthem for fear of being viewed as a subversive.
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The report also criticized President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey over his treatment of journalists whom his government considers subversive.
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The East German secret police are after Yanek's son, who has been spreading subversive flyers speaking against the Communist government.
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In 1963, Hoover led a campaign to take down Martin Luther King Jr., whom he saw as a dangerous subversive.
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I was prepared to find this puzzle unpleasant, but I have to admit that the subversive in me loved it.
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"When We Were Orphans" (2000), about an Englishman who grew up in China, has subversive elements of the detective novel.
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And when it comes to knowing the difference between subversive and violent intentions, the stakes may be higher than ever.
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An article on Tuesday about subversive politics in Super Bowl XIV misstated the location of the Super Bowl in 2016.
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Do you think it is important for drag to remain subversive, or is it better for it to become mainstream?
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Listening to people describe their sex lives often feels nominally subversive but ultimately boring: There's nothing inherently interesting about sex.
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Abboud suppressed free speech by banning many independent newspapers, but Women's Voice lived on, making its presence even more subversive.
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Since Genet's movie was often viewed as samizdat, there was an unusual carry-over of subversive feeling in my viewing.
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These series have the opportunity to tell subversive, gripping stories that wouldn't necessarily find funding or promotional support in theaters.
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Jojo Rabbit could use more of that dynamic, and more of Waititi's subversive voice and willingness to upend cinematic norms.
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During parties, Manning was a subversive photo bomber, stuffing his mouth with a brownie and then flashing a muddy grin.
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So far, the men's wear shows in London, Milan and Paris have featured craft-inspired pieces, berets — and subversive suits.
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But two decades after his death, Blanchon's work is still subversive and witty, and still charged with radical queer eroticism.
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The anonymous artist, known for their satirical and subversive graffiti, gave the residents of Bristol, England, a Valentine's day installation.
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But this N.W.A. alum still has a rich catalog of songs that were once considered subversive but are now classic.
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Wanting to utilize social media and the female form in a subversive way, artist and game developer A.M. Darke, a.k.a.
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The show pushed boundaries of subversive drag, complete with fire, fake blood, and performances that were more political than pretty.
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What followed was a series of exhibitions that, depending whom you ask, were either subversive and brilliant or irrationally misguided.
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Thus far, activist game designs follow a variant of one or more of the following six plans of attack: 1: The Story: Most examples so far of games with subversive intent only go so far as to write subversive content, giving the player a way to play-act their resistance rather than exercise it.
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That's exactly right, and I worry that when we're always being watched we cease to feel comfortable thinking subversive, original thoughts.
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Big River, Big Sea 1949 — Title of a 2009 book published in Taiwan that's seen as subversive by the Chinese government.
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Any subversive software developer knows its app has truly caught on when repressive regimes around the world start to block it.
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But according to Reuters, they were taken offline when users began posting screenshots alleging subversive interactions they'd had with the bots.
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It's pretty subversive that you're approaching it this way, because black metal itself can be such a white, backward-facing genre.
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Using the aesthetics of abundance, Ai continues his interest in politicizing everyday objects that he encodes with new, sometimes subversive meanings.
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Beyond its subtly subversive storytelling elements, KHNH is also unique due to the role that New York plays in the movie.
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In the 1990s, Canadian businessman Maurice Strong, active in environmental efforts at the U.N., was often fingered as a Canadian subversive.
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It's their politics: They hold minority views on America's relationship with Israel — ones that have long been considered subversive and taboo.
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News of the DHS list reminded her of COINTELPRO, the program that Hoover ran at the FBI targeting groups deemed subversive.
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Even though 2016 was a big year for genre properties, Deadpool felt more like a subversive comedy than a superhero movie.
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"[It's] more subversive that way," Crose said, explaining why she wants to do a printed zine rather than an online one.
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But there was something clearly subversive, in my mind anyway, about Beyoncé wearing braids in some of the world's whitest cities.
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"Through modernized forms of subversive tactics, Russia interferes in the domestic political affairs of countries around the world," the document states.
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When it does, it is absolutely satisfying, wrapping the many pieces together in a way that's horrifying, subversive, and legitimately emotional.
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On Monday, the world's largest strip club — Sapphire Gentleman's Club — became something else: The most subversive art show in Las Vegas.
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Mr. Cruz has also employed more subversive strategies to get out the vote, and has even raised eyebrows among state officials.
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From the start, the choice of a female actor gives a prelude to the type of subversive investigation Safoglu will explore.
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But the crowd favorite — and the favorite of at least one of the seven judges — was also the most blatantly subversive.
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"Using contraception can be subversive for women," said Lester Coutinho, the family planning deputy director at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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He is no longer forbidden; instead the authorities are on the lookout for anything that might expose citizens to subversive politics.
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And of course, they are used to rip parts of films, overlaid with subversive new typography or edits to shift meaning.
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It's a sweetly subversive comedy about coming out and coming-of-age, and learning that your sexuality doesn't fully define you.
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I'm not saying tech is now a bastion of conservatism; just that it's less quietly subversive than it used to be.
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Camp humor is often a subtly subversive political tool; as a drag icon to millions, Bob the Drag Queen would know.
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Buffy's manpain is subversive not only because she's a female character, but because of the specific female archetype that she represents.
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Gaga's near-perfect halftime performance — featuring everything from subversive political statements to inadvertent Spongebob Squarepants references — blew the internet's collective mind.
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From her jagged, minimalist guitar playing to her thrilling, subversive poses on album covers, she was a creature all her own.
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"I think it's hard to predict, when you make subversive choices, what kind of impact they're going to have," Joe mused.
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" The Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke criticized Beyoncé's decision to pay homage to what he called a "subversive hate group.
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Erdoğan has launched a massive crackdown on suspected political opponents and subversive operatives in the wake of the July 15 event.
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He barges into her workplace and social events, becoming a classic trickster, that mischievous, subversive figure who upends the status quo.
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In a recent interview with E. Alex Jung of New York magazine, RuPaul laid out the subversive function of his show.
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This subtly subversive novel examines the pang of childlessness experienced by Kali and Ponna, a couple living in rural southern India.
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So it's pretty disheartening to see the series rewriting this complicated, subversive storyline into a conventional tale of prophesies and destiny.
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This invokes a popular theory of avant-gardism, that of troublemaking art that conceals subversive purposes under cover of appealing aesthetics.
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But the government also tried to suppress wuxia, a martial arts genre of literature and film, as superstitious and potentially subversive.
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A subversive text in the background of random porn is a classic artifact for Chu to worship or criticize or both.
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To run wild under the banner of Appel is to ask how art is complicit or subversive in its social context.
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The imagery gives the book an uncanny quality, while the matter-of-factness of Wray's vision conveys dark, almost subversive, humor.
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Actually, it wasn't until we reread many of these books as adults that we noticed their more subversive themes and elements.
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In fact, by staying in an LTR in your twenties, you're doing just about the most subversive thing you could do.
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They're both forms of escapism that feature universally innocent acts shot through with the thrill of subversive temptation, of danger even.
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By Design How is it that the brilliantly subversive work of Trix and Robert Haussmann is virtually unknown in the U.S.?
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You can impart so much more smart, subversive humor when people are actually listening to you and not on the defense.
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But if projects are all we value, our lives become self-subversive, aimed at extinguishing the sources of meaning within them.
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At Alexander Gray, Harmony Hammond's prescient Weave paintings of the mid-1970s add a subversive domestic twist to the modernist monochrome.
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His treatment of the folktale as literature—innovative, even subversive at the time—puts him in company with Yeats, Stevenson, Poe.
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His refusal to comply interfered with the committee's ability to fulfill its constitutional duties and was, therefore, subversive of constitutional government.
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But it makes sense those battles erupt at the end of Reagan's presidency, with these more subversive movies showing up. Yeah.
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She is no longer the young law professor researching bankruptcy cheats, or the freshman debater who called her Democratic friend subversive.
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But there is nothing ordinary about the subversive Berlin-based fashion collective GmbH, lead by Benjamin Alexander Huseby and Serhat Isik.
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But while her body of work is sweepingly subversive, Reaves remains fascinated by the materiality and perceived purpose behind each piece.
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The only hint of Schnack's subversive spirit is the window frames, painted a dark violet Farrow & Ball shade called Bible Black.
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His photographs, enlivened by friends, subversive wit and a hip-hop swagger, are on show in a major retrospective in Paris.
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But the animals have long been celebrated across this country for their loyalty and clown-like temperament, and as subversive symbols.
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The original was a subversive take on superheroes at a time when they were mostly limited to comic books and cartoons.
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And it establishes Anne as, of all things, subversive, at least when measured against other teenagers on television and in film.
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The Cold War narrative ignores this new reality because it tends to see any subversive activity as the work of states.
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Most interestingly, it doesn't just rehash the story of the Holy Land we already know, but imagines a new, subversive ending.
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A large part of what makes him so subversive is the way he looks utterly innocent while perpetrating assaults on propriety.
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While "Saturday Night Live" was always subversive and groundbreaking, it was also conceived before cable and the internet rewarded niche sensibilities.
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Remarkably, the amalgam didn't feel subversive — more an inevitable evolution of a genre that had been stubborn and slow to change.
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Such dedication to making the most beautiful thing means perfection can be subversive in the most radical — and sublime — of ways.
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Clergymen, politicians and pundits found "The Graduate" subversive, and they denounced it from pulpits to the letters page of The Times.
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The images look like they were born as ads, or billboards — which, we learned in the 1970s, contained big, subversive messages.
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"Through modernized forms of subversive tactics, Russia interferes in the domestic political affairs of countries around the world," the document stated.
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Isn't lighting a politician from below, to make him look menacing — and not at all palatable to a magazine's readership — subversive?
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" Rotten Tomatoes critic score (Season 2): 91% What critics said: "The second season of Amazon's subversive screwball comedy The Marvelous Mrs.
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"Through modernized forms of subversive tactics, Russia interferes in the domestic political affairs of countries around the world," said the document.
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It feels more vivid and subversive, with simple enough feuds to follow, and the right mix of aggressive and passive players.
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And I want to focus more on that, more on moving this kind of subversive email community that doesn't have a name.
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Absolutely not, says Todd Rose in a subversive and readable introduction to what has been called the new science of the individual.
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Then, with an astonished lurch, you notice sly, subversive genius Banksy has stencilled Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald either side of her.Wham!
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"It carries the flag of being subversive and possibly rebellious and chaotic and nihilistic," he says around halfway through the clip above.
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Even just doing your own thing and putting it into the world, and providing for yourself is inherently subversive in some way.
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Here was the First Amendment Randazza — and other liberals — wanted to protect: a law that safeguarded subversive speech from powerful moralistic assholes.
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Yet in 2018, there is no act more subversive than giving yourself over to an unabashedly sincere ode to common human goodness.
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Key and Peele, who are generally known for their sly, subversive humor, made some lame oral-sex jokes during the MTV VMAs.
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It was a bit too subversive for them, and we basically browbeat them into it by making the film predominantly in Vancouver.
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It's time for this country to retire their binary oppressive Flintstones couples costumes and replace them with far more subversive thruples costumes.
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The leaflets warn residents not to disrupt public order or undertake "subversive" activities, which carry punishments including death or life in prison.
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And although the rising numbers of subversive films are encouraging, the social consequences of their release fall disproportionately on the women involved.
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Not only is WICCA a clear example of girls sticking up for girls, but it's a subversive take on women and witchcraft.
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Though for the most part a visually lush and colorfully attractive show, there's something slightly subversive about František Kupka: Pioneer of Abstraction.
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We're sure Donald Trump is confident that he has the vote of his wife Melania, noted Michelle Obama fan and subversive dresser.
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Her subversive SEO works so well because "the internet can't tell the difference between what is and what's hoped for," she said.
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Two other American citizens, Otto Warmbier and Kim Dong-chul, were sentenced to prison for what North Korea described as subversive acts.
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The eight-episode series, expected to premiere in 2018, will explore the "subversive, funny, obsessive relationship" that develops between Eve and Villanelle.
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When We protagonist D-503 experiences jealousy, it's subversive because it implies that he no longer considers all citizens identical and interchangeable.
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Facial and body piercings, ear gauging, dental grills and tribal ink were once the province of so-called deviant or subversive subcultures.
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Conduct that reinforces that interference may be sufficiently subversive to rise to the level of an impeachable offense, even if not criminal.
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African nations such as Ethiopia and Eritrea similarly control access and punish citizens and journalists for sharing information that is deemed subversive.
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Although he affirmed Miss Stahl's dismissal, Justice Church contended there was evidence of subversive forces at work within the Department of Welfare.
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Despite its origin as something subversive, a way for kids to put their own identity on language, it is now intensely popular.
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But while reading their respectful account, I began to wonder if Day's religious conservatism might also, perhaps unconsciously, have been politically subversive.
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But the women behind Twig — avid crafters whose first business venture involved "subversive greeting cards" — elevate the hobby to a meditative art.
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"This is a profoundly, intensely, extravagantly personal film," wrote A. O. Scott in his review of Paul Thomas Anderson's surprisingly subversive drama.
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Most are just generic placeholders, but a few are strikingly brutal exploiters, none more so than V. A. Vandevere, a subversive invention.
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THURSDAY PUZZLE — I am a subversive from way back, despite my outward appearance, so I love any reason to break the rules.
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He wore jeans to his lectures and occasionally smoked cigarettes in class while imparting his love of subversive literature to his students.
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Observing the quiet, subversive supremacy is hard when it's been both natural and convenient for you during the span of your lifetime.
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I don't want to be 20," said one member of this subversive cadre of women over 60, "but I'm really freaking cool.
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Purporting to be an "adaptation of a recently discovered, never released YA novel by Mike Pence," Gay Future is a subversive snack.
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NotPetya created significant downtime and a whopping $10 billion in damages, but its most subversive impact was how it deceived the public.
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It's these subversive episodes—as well as the murderous series finale, because how else could you end Dinosaurs if not with extinction?
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Shows like this aren't fluff — they're subversive, self-aware and capable of depicting the complexities of women of color in nuanced ways.
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The show seemed simultaneously subversive, brainy and silly, though its creators tended to play down how much deep thought went into it.
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She has always defended the fantastic, by which she means not formulaic fantasy or "McMagic" but the imagination as a subversive force.
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To that end, Subversive Real Estate Acquisition REIT LP raised $225 million through a public offering in January on Toronto's NEO Exchange.
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"There's something subversive about 'The Simpsons,' but there's a lot of love in the spirit of the show," Roush told CNN Business.
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To be clear, it continues to be subversive that Elsa is a character defined entirely by her lack of a love interest.
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The Save the Martians protesters were arrested as rioters and alien sympathizers, but other subversive peace groups were said to be forming.
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Of the many classic characters the SNL vet brought back to the show's stage, none were funnier or more subversive than Gumby.
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Disinformation peddlers are deploying new, more subversive techniques and American operatives have adopted some of the deceptive tactics Russians tapped in 2016.
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"I always need something that irritates the eye," Gustav says, though irritation is not quite right: The result is more quietly subversive.
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Nickelodeon's princess may strike some adults as subversive, particularly given the surge of conservatism that helped push Donald J. Trump into office.
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That Fini kept the subversive fires burning for as long as she did turns out to be the most surprising revelation here.
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The tensions are slight; the most subversive notion is Jin-woo and Kyung-ah's May-December-ish bond, with Kyung-ah the older.
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Not that two female characters obsessed with each other must necessarily be gay, but the implicit possibility gives White Nights a subversive edge.
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On the twentieth anniversary of the subversive teen movie, star and author of Brave, Rose McGowan, remembers the making of a cult classic.
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It's move to Netflix, a private media company with world domination on its mind, gives Black Mirror an extra hint of subversive mischief.
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After the photo shoot, Neak stained the colors of the flowers directly onto the print, in a subversive reference to the Khmer proverb.
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Just in time for the subversive hacker drama to return to USA, you can binge Season 1 free with an Amazon Prime subscription.
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All of a sudden, the same decentralized record-keeping properties that make the blockchain subversive also make it a surveillance platform without equal.
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The subversive handiwork was instigated by artist Kathrin Böhm, together with Harry Blackett and Robin Kirkham from graphic design studio An Endless Supply.
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But the pontianak also embodies a subversive female energy that is increasingly being embraced by a new wave of writers and film-makers.
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The subversive, secretive nature of sex and porn keeps us from having open, honest, and healthy discourse, and it's time to change that.
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Attacking the Hong Kong publishers, from Xi's point of view, may be a way of preventing subversive ideas from spreading into mainland China.
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Something innately forward about these prints makes them subversive, and few who passed by the young gallery's booth could resist getting up close.
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Traditionally, it's a ritzy, buzzy affair, but with tensions rising between the press and an increasingly hectic White House, it's become more subversive.
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Though those episodes might be, as Michael Jackson says, "ignant" (+16433), Parker and Stone still "reached these keeds" (+16423) with their subversive show.
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He also helped draft the martial law that kept Park in power—and that allowed him to monitor artists and ban subversive works.
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But because of his associations with some other Polish directors whom the government deemed subversive, Kieslowski's early features were sometimes censored and recut.
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The list continues: Kendra Adams —a "strong trans women," according to her friends, whose subversive drag performances subverted stereotypes—was killed in June.
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More than any performer since Freddie Mercury, Prince embraced and united the subversive, queer aesthetics of glam performance culture with historical rock roots.
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The internet is a very effective medium for groups with any sort of agenda—subversive or not—to target and groom susceptible audiences.
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Even hooded Offred of The Handmaid's Tale is too caged to fight the proverbial and literal man with anything but quietly subversive acts.
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The video for "Happy" is anything but, but it's also a refreshingly clever and subversive piece of feminist filmmaking that rewards multiple viewings.
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Here, our hero Winston has been taken into custody by the Thought Police, all his subversive thoughts and ideas found out at last.
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But she uses a coquettish tone when she talks about The Golden One — a strategy that is as subversive as it is effective.
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She explores the histories, symbols, spaces, economies and lived experiences that bind contemporary Britain to its past – an ongoing and subversive 'family album.
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For a series that is so thematically subversive and creatively risky, there's little pleasure in attributing that to the program's creator, Sam Esmail.
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"I called him deceptive on the questions concerning drugs, theft and affiliation with gangs, terrorist organizations or subversive groups," McCarty wrote to Warner.
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Photo: GettyIn the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Facebook's potential to be a subversive political tool has been all too clear.
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But at least that event was bone-crunchingly exciting, and its half-time show intriguingly subversive (Beyoncé appeared in a Black Panther outfit).
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She's been dubbed a "subversive" figure associated with the gangster lifestyle of young Chinese adults, and banned from a social media platform there.
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When even icy style guru Anna Wintour is among the insiders clamoring to make a self-parodying appearance, the subversive edge gets blunted.
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Thiel believes the medium's subversive and democratizing potential, as it applies to public art and historical narratives, is the crux of its power.
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Since parting ways with Sony, her output has become more prolific and subversive than it was allowed to be a few years prior.
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Influenced too by Dadaism, an artistic movement which emerged during the first world war, Paik embarked on a similarly subversive series of performances.
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Modern-day Tumblr artists have entirely revived the long-dormant tradition of professional-quality fanzines, many featuring subversive queer content and explicit content.
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For Watkins, Flip The Script's subversive portrait felt immediately familiar — a hauntingly relatable look at anyone who's struggled to make her voice heard.
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Calling himself a subversive trick photographer, the artist takes hundreds of photos on a tripod in a single spot over about an hour.
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Over the years, I plucked many such signifiers from the world of casual, lightly subversive men's wear and planted them in my outfits.
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Ms. Zink's voice is naturally satirical and subversive; she can't help seeing that her characters are comic and sublime at the same time.
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I've had the joy of working with queer customers, and most of those experiences have been powerfully subversive in a (seemingly) heteronormative space.
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Not nearly as fun as Resident Evil, nowhere near as subversive as Silent Hill, not even as spooky as Alone in the Dark.
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Once subversive comedians grow crotchety and rail against the younger generation's "PC culture" any time someone dares to challenge their own status quo.
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Her characters are far from the status quo of eroticized women crafted to appeal to hegemonic male desire: They're subversive, experimental, and queer.
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But while she may represent a subversive response to 80s slasher flicks, the original Buffy Summers doesn't diverge much from popular sexist stereotypes.
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But as the springs on this cliche wear down, directors have had to get more and more subversive, creative, and shocking with it.
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OVERVIEW MOTHERBOARD is looking for an internet editor to help us develop coverage that is unique, skeptical, global, human, and a little subversive.
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"Through modernized forms of subversive tactics, Russia interferes in the domestic political affairs of countries around the world," read the congressionally-mandated document.
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While the transgressiveness of Mr. Packard's work is genuine, and recalls old-school subversive cinema, there's a hermetic quality to it as well.
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Something like Carmageddon has a loose enough premise that I'd love to see someone else come in and try something weird and subversive.
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The new collection showed how Chinese officials asserted the view that China was threatened by subversive forces from abroad, particularly the United States.
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Myles employs a radical and subversive use of fact — loss made fact, queerness made fact, a trans body made fact, loneliness made fact.
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It's not the cheeky, subversive gaze that they turn on the Australian men's rubgy team: This is the familiar, objectifying gaze of whiteness.
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This is the delightfully subversive premise of "The Boys", an Amazon series based on the comic books by Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson.
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"Donald John Trump has acted in a manner contrary to his trust as president and subversive of constitutional government," the proposed resolution says.
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Like Frida Kahlo, Bert of "Sesame Street" and George Harrison before them, a new generation is embracing the subversive charm of the unibrow.
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That approach might allow for recognition of movies made by subversive or politically troublesome filmmakers that won't be submitted by their own country.
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Beyond this, of course, it's a shrewdly subversive move to tell this immigrant story via a tale so central to the Western canon.
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And our reporter in Moscow took a critical look at a Kremlin-controlled think tank that critics accuse of spreading subversive propaganda overseas.
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I am most passionate about my subversive projects that are 'designed for impact' — much of this work is research based and concept driven.
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"And we thought if we named them Reginald Heber Smith — a nice Brahmin name — nobody would ever think that they were subversive infiltrators."
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Confessional and subversive, the song gracefully captures that tender line between self-inflation and self-sabotage, giving the enigmatic lyrics many possible interpretations.
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A high-modernist, Promethean vocabulary — by now its own kind of consensus — is her touchstone of praise: the unsettling, the rebellious, the subversive.
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" The gallery states that the work is meant to "provoke an examination of one's own insecurities, thus turning them into subversive 'thinking sculptures.
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After all, Islamism, like good art, is innately subversive; it captures diffuse feelings of alienation in a way that is difficult to fabricate.
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" The bill's sponsor in the Senate said the intent was to stop "extremist vegans" committing "subversive acts" that might "bring down the industry.
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Some, he said, felt trapped between what they imagined was a global cabal of Jewish bankers and an influx of subversive Jewish refugees.
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And some health care stuff and certainly there's some other things, but I think a lot of these things are subversive. Haircuts. Yeah.
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" The Tory grass roots, Mr. Moore said, are enraged by left-wing sanctimony, and "long for something that is more subversive and different.
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After Exit Art closed in 22018, following Ingberman's passing, Colo continued to develop his own practice, subversive and powerful in its own right.
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It's also an incredibly subversive movie that features a final girl who does whatever it takes to save herself, even if that means damnation.
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Ultimately, Hathaway and Wilson's real-life fight to ensure the film's R-rating strikes a more subversive stance than anything we see on screen.
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Dark Humor: African American Art from the University Museums, University of Delaware presents works that employ subversive humor to question cultural and racial stereotypes.
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"I'd say that rather than making the office feminine, we made it masculine with subversive intrusions such as hair," Marcin tells The Creators Project.
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I think it's cool if it happens, but to put the onus on people to constantly be subversive or revolutionary can be really exhausting.
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That her story, in particular, nevertheless manages to hit the aspirational sweet spot that this summer's movies have not speaks to its subversive streak.
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For all the shock value of the trippy movie, Antibirth's most subversive move is to knock pregnancy off its pedestal of sentimentality and romanticism.
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Feature "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend" — the subversive series that just won the actor a Golden Globe — somehow manages to set women's uncomfortable truths to music.
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"The internet is a lot less interesting these days, and sites on The Useless Web are fighting against that by being simple and subversive."
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The move split sports fans and the broader American public: an American sports champion rejecting his birth name and adopting one that sounded subversive.
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Brothers are often less puritanical in Islamic practices than salafists but, because they permit rebellion against impious rulers, they are regarded as more subversive.
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Trevorrow's mildly subversive take worked for audiences, and the film grossed more than $1.67 billion worldwide, making it one of 2015's biggest successes.
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China's government has a history of cracking down on protests and performance art that it deems subversive, and feminist activists have not been immune.
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A former federal police officer, Sandoval is accused of committing crimes at a secret prison where he was a specialist in fighting "subversive elements".
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All that dripping honey in the lyric video is certainly ladden with meaning, as are the subversive double entendres that make up the song.
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" – James Madison , Federalist No. 48 TIME OUT: WORDS ARE HARD Atlantic: "In 1961, what newly published book was denounced as 'subversive and intolerably offensive'?
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Previous investors have included the Founders Fund — the firm headed by Peter Thiel — as well as Subversive Capital, Three Trees Ventures and Been There.
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What we know about the suspect Police described Neumann as a disgruntled former employee acting alone with no ties to terror or subversive groups.
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Snoop Dogg, clearly the voice of the people, made an extremely subversive statement by smoking up a blunt in front of the White House.
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It's playful, and playfully subversive — after all, the song is essentially an unrequited love letter from LeFou to his muscle-daddy man crush Gaston.
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Police must also "strike back against all kinds of infiltration and subversive activities by hostile foreign forces", he told the ministry's annual national meeting.
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While wildly creative and refreshingly subversive, I can't really say that Swiss Army Man as a whole works, or even if I liked it.
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Those fears grew in March when Pakistan arrested a man it said was a RAW spy in Baluchistan, and accused him of "subversive activities".
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is an open world video game set on the American frontier with an almost subversive dedication to detail and realism.
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While much gossip is rooted in apolitical personal viciousness and voyeurism, there is also a tradition of subversive scuttlebutt used to undermine political legitimacy.
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Her husband and father view her vegetarianism as a subversive act, while her brother-in-law becomes sexually fixated with her plant-shaped birthmark.
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Towering above Victoria Harbor, the glowing white digits blinked against the night sky: 979,012,493… 979,012,492… 20143,012,491… The seemingly innocuous numbers contained a subversive statement.
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"You didn't hear many tunes written by women nearly a hundred years ago, much less ones with these kinds of subversive themes," Bougerol says.
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The summits produced calls for Iran to abandon its subversive policies against Arab countries and back away from its drive to dominate the region.
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Like that subversive charmer, "Tumacho" plays dizzily with historical notions of American manliness (just pronounce its name), but in a more willfully absurdist key.
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Snyder is of the belief that North Korea's behavior, albeit subversive to the existing world order and destabilizing to the surrounding region, is logical.
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His smirking and somewhat subversive accommodation to this Pharisaism is to emphasize the ways in which Black English is more complex than Standard English.
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Her vocal chords vibrate with ill will and secrets, lending Eye of Nix a certain operatic touch by way of grandiose, subversive 80s goth.
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If you're a nonpartisan civil servant, you're either an arrogant unelected bureaucrat or a foreign-born subversive with questionable loyalty to your adopted country.
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The message of Charlie's Angels probably seems subversive to the suits who ponied up the tens of millions of dollars to make this movie.
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The committee revealed details of the F.B.I.'s secret Cointelpro, or counterintelligence, operation, which included illegal sabotage of dissident groups deemed to be subversive.
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But the subversive tale of self-reinvention and the feel-good re-creation of a vanished, simpler era turn out to be mirror images.
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Forty years ago, the Comme des Garçons designer began creating subversive, gender-bending clothes for men at a time when no one else was.
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Goichi Suda, or "Suda51," is an iconoclast video game auteur whose studio, Grasshopper Manufacture, has built a cult following with subversive and outrageous titles.
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East German authorities, by overreacting, had turned the gathering of concert listeners — people who just wanted to hear music — into a subversive political act.
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Mixing nature and culture, wood from the urban wild and "civilized" furniture, the object is arresting and disturbing, a brilliantly simple and subversive gesture.
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The erotic, subversive performance art that Lebel often chose to showcase illustrates the tension in his work between Dionysian creativity and critical political activism.
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Ms. Fendi, like Ms. Prada, engages our times from an ironic position, if not always with quite Ms. Prada's naturally subversive cast of mind.
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My son almost jumped from his seat to join in, though he doesn't understand how subversive it is to poke fun at male saviors.
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Twilight has fallen on the venerable American trickster, who in our Trumpian afterworld of alternative facts has come to seem more sordid than subversive.
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But what's most subversive about the work in New York, where Mr. Ji lives part time, is that it never quite picks a side.
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One, authorized by the State Legislature in 21969, barred the school system from employing anyone who belonged to what was deemed a subversive organization.
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"But the Westerners behind it gradually turned Instagram into a mischievous tool for dangerous subversive actions against the state or pornographic purposes," he said.
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They made subversive queer-themed paintings, and their photographs — created in antique styles, with painstaking precision — depicted them as dandies of a bygone era.
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Mr. Blaker, a clean comic who steers clear of politics, seems more subversive than secular Jewish comics, even those working with much edgier material.
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Simply telling the truth is a subversive act and yes I suppose may in fact serve Putin or our other enemy's short-term interests.
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When I received the first text, I was a playful sixth grader, always finding sly ways to be subversive in school and with friends.
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The Turner quartet's subversive act will, paradoxically, affirm their own position within the museums, biennials, fairs and institutions that confer artistic prestige and power.
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But the language that Mr. Trump deployed on Friday is more typically used by leaders to refer to hostile foreign governments or subversive organizations.
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I find that just as subversive of the American character as someone like Trump who denigrates groups of people who he has never met.
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"I incorporated activist organizations and projects"—instead of just scholarly texts—"which was a subversive thing to do in an academic bibliography," she said.
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Sure, he'll send out a pro-Le Pen tweet, but Trump has mostly switched from being a subversive populist to being a conventional corporatist.
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Carry-On Rob Corddry is a comedian, former "Daily Show" correspondent and the creator of "Childrens Hospital," a subversive parody of medical television shows.
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In using Russia's subversive tactics against itself, Beijing can claim territory and resources that border China and which it could more effectively develop economically.
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But that same year, a C.P.U.S.A. representative in Moscow sent a secret letter warning that Comintern leaders thought the slogan ideologically incorrect and subversive.
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Vice began 23 years ago as a punk magazine exploring the subversive counterculture that our writers, our readers and we were a part of.
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It is the first piece the artist has exhibited since his 2011 retrospective at the museum and it's as simple as it is subversive.
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And of course many modern modes and techniques of subversive propaganda were developed and perfected by British and American authorities in the previous century.
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Fake news and misinformation spreads as a result of social media algorithms, and I think that's more significant than the subversive activity of states.
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Today we are used to thinking of graffiti as subversive or illegal, but ancient people didn't necessarily see graffiti in this way at all.
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"Police came with a warrant of search and seizure they claimed there were certain computers and other subversive materials," MDC lawyer Denford Halimani said.
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Almost by their nature, these kinds of highly stylized, editorial photographs, whether taken by Kander, Schoeller, or anyone else, are not subversive at all.
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Some of the objects are utilitarian, such as a manual for swan handling; others were subversive, like English annotations on a Latin religious text.
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That only leaves us with one option for an ending that is surprising, unexpected, subversive, and still true to the themes of Game of Thrones.
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This is the visual metaphor for their music: Sex is the super obvious and most distracting theme, but underneath the twerking, there's something subversive happening.
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Like the double-cross, the main crux of a scam, or the plot to "Where the Bag At," City Girls' are after something sneakily subversive.
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It's hard to say how much Chaucer agreed with his Wife's subversive arguments, but Bergvall's Alisoun is a profoundly engaging, funny, and deeply sympathetic voice.
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"The secret subversive goal of my work is to show that women, not just lesbians, are regular human beings," Bechdel once said in an interview.
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But in 2018, there are far fewer people wearing the cross as a subversive act, and many more wearing it as a purely aesthetic one.
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Muslim satirists in the region have taken advantage of that fact, and are using the term as part of subversive comedic critiques of the militants.
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If none of them seem as resistance-minded as Broodthaers, who was young in a time of revolutions, all share something of his subversive zaniness.
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You can't help but snort with laughter (or despair) at the idea of an accessory being dangerously subversive, or sleeve lengths adding to society's ailments.
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They were seen as both sexy and subversive — when Marlene Dietrich wore one in the 1932 film Morocco, for instance, she kissed another woman onscreen.
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EC published Tales from the Crypt, Mad, and other subversive material that was drawn by the best artists in American comic books at the time.
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So while I can't speak to the unique badness of this particular show, I can recommend an excellent alternative: the soapy, subversive Jane the Virgin.
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But basic rights to free expression and protest are tightly controlled, and candidates who are seen as too subversive are barred from running for office.
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Castro's revolutionary government came to see counterculture bands like the Stones and the Beatles as dangerously subversive and prohibited their music on TV and radio.
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You have to be well over 30 to remember a time before its subversive-yet-family-friendly brand of humor changed the sitcom scene forever.
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We deserve all the slightly subversive fun we can get, even if it just comes in the form of paint for our face hairs. Inspired?
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Banksy's identity has never been revealed, but his subversive murals, sculptures and ironic epigrams have become highly sought after in the establishment world he satirizes.
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Their cover of "Sugar, Sugar" is awesome, bubble gum pop fun, and a subversive take on the original since it's usually sung by The Archies.
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Now I'm inspired by the technology companies, because they're all done by young people, they all have fresh knowledge, and their ideas are all subversive.
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But that's the trick: summer blockbusters may largely be dreck, but there are plenty of other films out there that are satisfying. Inventive. Subversive. Clever.
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I told him I'd expected a bit of subversive sparkle, and he shrugged: The suit might be conservative, but the man wearing it wouldn't be.
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Their ideas were subversive to a generation that had learned nothing about the dark side of Stalinism or the irreverent style in Western modernist literature.
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A small percentage of these Venezuelan migrants appear to be undercover subversive agents embedded by the Maduro regime and his regional and extra-regional allies.
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Le Guin has always been fascinated by the subversive possibility of imaginative writing, and the central conceits of her two best-known series explore it.
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The British cartoon pig is seen as a subversive "gangster" icon associated with "shehuiren" culture, which refers to people who are poorly educated and unemployed.
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In making Mary her narrator, Barrett offers us a fresh and subversive take on a genre traditionally owned by male leviathans like Melville and Hemingway.
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In his thesis, Guadagnino described Demme as a quiet subversive, bringing countercultural values and political criticism onto the screen under the burnish of Hollywood fantasy.
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Hanoi has in the past accused the U.S. social media giant of violating local laws by allowing subversive comments to be published on its platform.
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A technician was cuing up a sample from a song by Laibach, a Slovenian group that fuses totalitarian imagery with pop culture, to subversive effect.
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A glimpse of mainstream success came with the critically acclaimed album, "Paper Television," a collection of catchy, quietly subversive synth-and-drum-machine-driven songs.
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Class is primed to deliver subversive takes on hoary monster tropes, and it's definitely gesturing toward a cheery kind of upheaval, especially near the end.
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The whole point of these stories about the seamy underside of suburbia is subversive social critique — something The Girl on the Train never really musters.
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During the final months of her life — she died in the summer of 1943 — Weil wrote of several of her most subversive and seminal texts.
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The line between sanctioned and subversive culture has always been porous in Michigan, a border state literally — with multiple entry points to Canada — and figuratively.
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"Of course, Chiitan is really cute, but then he or she also does these subversive activities, so that might help with its popularity," she said.
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A young woman of independent mind and progressive morals, Olivia looks back on her exciting, subversive youth from the vantage point of her ninth decade.
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But those can be remixed or transformed in fun, subversive ways that preserve the real magic linking Halloween to fairy tales and other folk traditions.
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In a move typical of his blend of religion and subversive hedonism, the inferno, purgatory and paradise will be the backdrops for the evening's festivities.
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SHANGHAI — China's government, which tirelessly suppresses critical voices, unwanted ideologies and subversive memes, has turned its censors against an unlikely target: its own economic policies.
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Balding, a self-described libertarian, adopted a variety of Twitter handles referencing targets of Chinese censorship, including "Subversive Peppa Pig Balding" and "Censored John Oliver".
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"It was classic Alex Timbers—having fun, singing songs—but every once in a while there would be these super-subversive elements," Lemon-Strauss recalled.
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For years, access has remained expensive and tightly controlled, inhibited in part by the government's concerns about the potentially subversive effect of free-flowing information.
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Maybe it's because he's livelier and more subversive than the other guys, who include Anna's rich older suitors, Alexei (Martin Jacobs) and Yegor (David Downer).
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UNESCO noted the carnival's "slightly subversive atmosphere" when including it in its list of "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity" in 2010, according to its website.
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On Friday, she'll release her debut solo album, "No Home Record," a subversive, post-punk ode to the city that shaped much of Young's output.
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Subtly subversive and slightly decadent, fall fashion wove together the best of traditional men's and women's wear to craft a look that defied gender conventions.
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"Being subversive and pushing creative boundaries to create business growth is in Burger King's and their CMO (Chief Marketing Officer) Fernando Machado's DNA," they said.
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His clothes are subversive because they suggest that craft ought not exist in the service of fashion but that fashion should exist to support craft.
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Under Communism, with its emphasis on subjugation of the individual to the collective, his ideas about the sovereignty of all humans being were considered subversive.
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Yet, there's something that still feels subversive about a woman getting what she's worked hard for, without having to sacrifice her relationship in the process.
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This new breed of suits are interesting because they're subversive — often in the runway look they complete, and sometimes in their own cut and finish.
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Listening to foreign radio, or watching foreign TV, is illegal and the government regularly carries out raids to make sure people aren't consuming anything subversive.
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For weeks, police in downtown Cairo would force passers-by to unlock their phones so officers could check their social-media accounts for subversive content.
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His clothes are subversive because they suggest that craft ought not exist in the service of fashion but that fashion should exist to support craft.
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Over the past two years, dozens of human rights lawyers have been jailed and accused of conspiring with foreign forces to carry out subversive plots.
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The brand used all this subversive imagery: the eight-ball, the "irie vibes," and the ads with yo'd out blond kids styled like black kids.
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But in the context of "Apeshit," with its montages of painting after painting of white faces and white statues, "Portrait" feels both shocking and subversive.
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Notes on the Culture John Galliano, Clare Waight Keller, Raf Simons and Kim Jones are creating sumptuous, handcrafted men's wear, to marvelous and subversive effect.
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For two weeks, we exist as one dysfunctional queer family traversing the American countryside with our subversive glam, our books, our queer narratives and hearts.
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North Korea was worried Choco Pies might have a subversive impact, and South Koreans responded by sending balloons carrying the sweet sandwich across the border.
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The books reference El Salvador's 1980–1992 Civil War, during which people often buried or burned their books so as not to be deemed subversive.
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I guess I was drawn to him because he was subversive, but I liked the fact that he tended to sabotage himself, because I do too.
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Whether it's through day-long prayer sessions or rejecting church buildings, Norwich's subversive Christian scene is finding a way to affirm this immovable passion for Christ.
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Self-labeled "queer street artists" are increasingly talking back against homophobia and claiming a share of ownership in public space through subversive and explicitly queer imagery.
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J.K. Rowling needs to spend less time on Twitter and more time writing subversive literature for the budding satanists who will one day be my children.
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" Zevi wrote that Rossi's Casa Del Portuale's "shabby, degraded coastal context […] is animated by a pioneering, spectacular, subversive object, which seems to claim an environmental redemption.
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Rannikko's subversive yet informative program is mirrored here by the works of Jani Hänninen, which warn against taking the most dramatic interpretations as the most reliable.
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The whole Twitter tirade really seems like an attempt at being a subversive condemnation of the Washington Post, which is owned by Trump enemy Jeff Bezos.
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Meanwhile, Wonder Woman was, depending on whom you ask, either propaganda about American exceptionalism or a subversive piece of feminism designed to sabotage tired Hollywood conventions.
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"But there are a small number of individuals, very subversive individuals, who do need to be held in separate units," she told BBC radio on Monday.
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Rascally rabbits Evil rabbit doodles left in the margins of medieval texts were both a hilarious and subversive blow against the ruling classes of the day.
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China said at the time that Liu's award was an "obscenity" that should not have gone to a man it called a criminal and a subversive.
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The show's popularity, and the imitations it has spawned, illustrate how subversive comedy is tiptoeing into the Ethiopian mainstream, upturning decades, even centuries, of cultural norms.
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It was partially morbid and partially historical – my family had visited Auschwitz on an early trip to Poland and it effected me deeply – and partially subversive.
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Serebrennikov is mostly known as a subversive theater director, but his controversial film The Student, which explored indoctrination, also won an award at Cannes in 2016.
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The sitcom fails to depict the subversive nature of people who charge through life messing with expectations of gender and sexuality, best exemplified in drag queens.
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There's not so much that art can do in this situation other than engaging in straight truth-telling, something that feels particularly subversive at the moment.
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In 2014, writers Hazel Cills and Gabrielle Noone published a comprehensive guide to "snackwave," or the phenomenon of junk food as a somewhat subversive internet symbol.
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When we think about resistance and we talk about subversive systems, we think, 'Well we can't do anything, no matter what I do it won't work.
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If you think about it, the song could even be read as a feminist anthem — a subversive celebration of women's sexual agency in a repressive time.
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Still, there are a few things — compiled from slightly more subversive interviews — that we wish the Guerrilla Girls had managed to tell this mainstream cable audience:
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There is the finale, "Rockin' in the Free World," where you have to forgive Young's 80s Reaganing because he's added a new verse, subversive as ever.
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Colette was such a subversive, queer, feminist icon—do you also feel there's a sense that audiences wouldn't have been ready for this film until 2018?
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Columbian artist Daniel Forero abandoned the world of advertising, instead creating his own subversive, Pop art-inflected imagery—and our two eyes are glad he did.
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I feel like that subversive tendency came from feeling so unwelcome in Texas, and maybe it continued to highlight the fact that they didn't fit in.
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What makes Buffy so subversive even now, 20 years after the show's debut, is that it made Buffy herself the subject of traditionally masculine storytelling tropes.
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And back then one word would have been used to describe the crime committed by anyone who coordinated with the Russians in such subversive activity: treason.
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Edmund McMillen—of Super Meat Boy and The Binding of Isaac fame—tested out his perverse, subversive, body-horror sense of humor on Newgrounds' willing audience.
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As an MFA student at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Aguhar cultivated a subversive online presence dedicated to a high-femme, queer, brown girl aesthetic.
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"The artists in the show are doing work that's not given the conceptual value it deserves because of its marginalized context and subversive media," says Meyers.
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But upon crossing the threshold, you quickly realize that this facade is an aesthetic misdirection — the home is, in fact, a Trojan horse of subversive design.
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The Magicians isn't as politically subversive as Buffy, to be sure, but it boasts socially conscious substance of its own, substance that informs everything it does.
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Some SESTA opponents have suggested that the legislation will curtail the intentions of the "Good Samaritan" immunity by eliminating the incentive to suppress subversive content, altogether.
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Soldiers stormed the town in search of subversive material but found no ammunition, explosives or Shining Path propaganda, according to a truth commission established by Peru.
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The police also searched his home and church, looking for a stolen police helmet and baton as well as subversive material, according to a search warrant.
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Andrea Giunta, co-curator with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, points to the importance of being disobedient under dictatorship and stresses the subversive power of unruliness and disorder.
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I have a theory that at this point in her career, making a piano-only album would be the most subversive thing Lady Gaga could do.
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Art informs the novel's subversive social critique, too, by exalting, however ironically, marginalized or working-class characters by comparing them to figures in masterpieces of art.
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And while Dillinger Four remains the platonic ideal of that sound, they remain more subversive, and more lyrically verbose, than anyone that followed in their wake.
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During interviews they've clearly accepted their roles as cultural ambassadors, often accidentally speaking in unison, while their live shows capture their powerful harmonies and subversive lyrics.
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The experimental Franco-Austrian director Gisèle Vienne took the genre onto dark terrain in "The Ventriloquists Convention," a 2015 collaboration with the subversive novelist Dennis Cooper.
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Anxious to suppress criticism, and maintain an appearance of mass support, the Communist Party's censors have scoured the internet and social media for content deemed subversive.
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In the late 60s, conceptual artist Stephen Kaltenbach burst onto the New York art scene, populating the city with subversive works, then vanished just as quickly.
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The voices of white supremacy insisted that Black lives were not human lives and any claim to human rights was subversive and threatening to the country.
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Maybe Juster's earnest, mildly subversive playfulness, which dipped a toe or two into the brewing countercultural energies of the early '60s, has turned cloying with age?
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That's just one of the questions posed in "Friday Black," a collection of subversive tales whose heroes have mastered racial coding through their style of dress.
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RUSE X VAYU SOUND: DIVERSION Location: RSVP for address Headliners: Reeko, Progression, Subversive, Template b2b Lindsey Herbert, Sean Venkersammy Your underground techno paradise awaits at Diversion.
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For a time during the 1970s, the Communist government of Czechoslovakia banned Mr. Svankmajer (pronounced SHVUNK-myer) from filmmaking, because they saw his movies as subversive.
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A subversive ending for Game of Thrones would suggest that having any ruler seated on the Iron Throne, whether good or bad, would be a disaster.
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In my mind, what's happened since Tywin's death has been a futile exercise in ending a subversive near-satire of a genre with a satisfying resolution.
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The Medea Insurrection pairs works by some of these women with those by contemporary artists based in Southern California whose works also veer into the subversive.
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In albums like Ultraviolence (2014) and Honeymoon (2015), she toyed with the concept of a torch song, producing subversive anti-anthems about romance's entanglement with death.
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Book Entry The M.I.T. professor Alan Lightman has produced a highly personal polemic targeting the subversive impact on civilization of the increasingly frenetic pace of life.
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Giorgio de Chirico created a slyly subversive cover for the November 1935 issue that endowed a traditional fashion still life with a hint of Surrealist menace.
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