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Nonetheless, his writings are too influential to be ignored, even if the provocative issues he raises are more usefully (and honestly) argued on the level of the policies they point to than on the level of what the Constitution dictates.
The WP editorializes against a provocative new procedure being implemented by the Fairfax County, Va., police: The department is planning to hand out cards to crime victims and witnesses advising them that they have the right to refuse media interviews.
Her writing since certainly confirms that rock 'n' roll was not her ideal subject, but the idea that the value of her provocative thoughts is somehow debased by her candor about her personal life, or by her willingness to appear topless on the cover of her book, is hilarious.
David Nokes has made a bold, provocative, and sometimes messy attempt to write Austen's life as if it were a novel whose outcome we didn't already know--"a biography written forwards," he emphatically declares in the introduction, which unfolds "as it was experienced at the time, not with the knowingness of hindsight."
Vastly more provocative and unsettling, in my opinion, than the ludicrous Lucas, is Jane Simpson's Sacred : a vanity chest that is colored like skin (or is it smudged lipstick?)