Sentences with phrase «with controversial figures»

These deal with controversial figures Bernadette Devlin, an Irish political activist, and the idealistic car manufacturer, John DeLorean.

Huffington Post writer Maxwell Strachan called the interview «an extended on - air puff piece» and dinged Fallon for playing nice with a controversial figure running for the highest job in the nation.

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Women's rights group UltraViolet has organized a petition with 13,000 signatures asking Amazon to remove the controversial figure's menswear line from its offerings.

Written by Peter Schweizer, a regular Fox News guest and author of controversial bestseller Clinton Cash, the book will reportedly «expose vast corruption by top Washington figures who leverage their political power to enrich their family members and friends, often by helping grease deals with foreign entities,» according to Axios.

Thanks to the deluge of national media coverage of her alleged sexual liaison with President Trump in 2006 and the $ 130,000 payoff she received in 2016 to stay quiet, the AVN Hall of Fame performer has become a national figure and one of the most controversial women in the world.

His character, the dim and racist cop Dixon, is the most controversial figure in the film, but Rockwell handles a tricky balancing act with grace and will surely be rewarded.

What especially struck me was that Richard, by then a controversial figure who had criticized the World Council of Churches and who had denounced the abortion right created by Roe v. Wade, loved debate and encouraged thinkers with diverse points of view to gather together.

Context matters for evangelism, and they worry that a figure who has made such controversial remarks won't be a good fit to share the Good News with the more progressive people of Vancouver.

Here he was, a prominent and well - known teacher in Israel, seeking to be taught by another, one with no official status, a controversial figure whom Nicodemus's own colleagues had come to despise.

Although Akhundzada lacks Haqqani's military expertise, some Taliban leaders consider the latter to be a controversial figure, unfamiliar with the insurgency landscape of southern Afghanistan.

He then became something of a controversial figure, with GOP chairs and operatives grousing about his dictatorial management style and — at least once — calling for his ouster.

A commission created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property has recommended that most be kept where they are with historical markers added to give additional context, with just one moved from its high - profile location.

The campaign has been careful about such overtures in the past as it fended off criticisms from the left by her primary rival Bernie Sanders, who highlighted her 2002 vote in favor of the Iraq War, ties to controversial Republican figures like Henry Kissinger, and warm relationship with Wall Street.

A task force created to figure out what to do with controversial statues and monuments on New York City property — described by the mayor as «symbols of hate» — has recommended only one statue be moved: a monument to J. Marion Sims, a 19th century doctor who developed advances in gynecological surgery by conducting operations on black slave women.

Added to this mix, his friendship with Malcolm X, a controversial and decisive figure in American life, meant the once gregarious Clay was now viewed with suspicion and fear.

The news story may have been small, but it played on strong narratives, such as the Home Office's policy of preventing controversial figures from coming to the UK and frictions with the Islamic community.

Party membership figures are a controversial issue, with the former cabinet minister Peter Mandelson, who is opposed to Corbyn, telling a Labour meeting in the Lords last month that «30,000 long - term members have left the party, real members, tens of thousands».

A commission appointed by the mayor is examining whether controversial historical figures honored with monuments on public grounds are «oppressive and inconsistent with the values of New York City» — and subject to possible removal or alteration.

The Puerto Rican Day Parade plans to honor a controversial figure with a history of violence.

Ms Thornberry is already a controversial figure, having been sacked by Ed Miliband last year for an allegedly «snobbish» tweet of a white van man's house draped with England flags.

The image is aimed at closely linking the senior Conservatives Gove and Johnson with the more controversial — and remain campaigners hope, more toxic — figure of Farage, the Ukip leader.

A similar self - employed parent with a starting income of # 20,000 would see a cut of just over 12 % after the introduction of the controversial changes to national insurance contributions (NICs) in the spring budget, the figures showed.

Past attempts to send messages to aliens, such as the plaques etched with human figures sent upon the Voyager missions, have steered clear of such fuzzy and controversial topics as theology.

But first, William Shockley shared the Nobel Prize in physics in 1956 and he later became a controversial, even despised, figure with his theories of eugenics and intelligence.

SeekingArrangement.com has released figures showing the 20 British universities with the highest number of students joining the controversial site.

True was started in 2003 by Herb Vest, who had an 8 - figure exit in 2001 with his innovative but controversial H.D. Vest accountancy firm to Wells Fargo.

Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?

Roberts is a controversial figure, and Sheen plays him with empathy if not honor.

Neil Jordan's controversial hagiography to the Big Fella (played by Liam Neeson) in which De Valera is as much a villain as the Black and Tans - was shot in the capital, with Dublin Castle, the Pepper Canister Church and City Hall figuring prominently.

As his relevance dwindled after the late»90s, when he was briefly the most controversial musician in America, Marilyn Manson remained a public figure, albeit more for his romances with teenage actresses and the occasional burlesque perform...

While that film was a feature length interview with Robert S. McNamara, the Vietnam - era Secretary of Defense, the new one talks to Donald Rumsfeld, the controversial figure who was one of the senior architects of the Iraq War.

With that comes Mel Gibson, still one of Hollywood's most controversial figures but who seems to have been granted a redemption card this year.

A trophy wife and her child are left alone on an estate in the south of France by her controversial political - figure husband, with only a PTSD - stricken security guard to protect them.

In part, it's because of the subject matter: Brian Wilson has always been one of pop's most fascinating figures, and rather than attempting to span an entire life, the approach here seems to be focused on his sessions with a controversial therapist.

Lawmakers have been trying for weeks to figure out how to deal with Common Core, the controversial education standards they adopted five years ago.

The figure varies with the topography of the road; official claims based on the controversial European test cycle procedure for hybrid cars puts its range at 22.4 miles, although Porsche engineers suggest the real world range is actually between 11.2 and 22.4 miles.

It is important to note that the tattoos are glue - and - glitter designs — no ink is being applied onto the skin, and thus Bendersky is far from the controversial figure who recently gained some notoriety by tattooing his dog with actual needle and ink.

A prominent counterculture leader of the»60s associated with both human rights and violent activism, Davis remains a controversial political figure.

In November 2012, the artist's controversial Revisionist Art Series opened in New York with large silkscreen works that satirised lofty public figures and celebrities within the format of famous magazine covers, re-contextualizing the familiar graphics and iconography with vivacity and a maverick sense of the absurd.

Both Hoyland and Hirst have been controversial figures in the art world and both associated with new artistic directions.

Although she is known for a number of collaborations with ex-partner Ulay, the figure has unapologetically been a pioneer in her own right, inviting huge audiences to a multitude of controversial works, including The Artist is Present at MoMA, New York (2010).

Abney places figures based on real people into imaginative worlds to create large genre paintings that deal with controversial issues regarding race and gender.

Often seen hanging out with Andy Warhol, Schnabel's provocative and controversial figure was standing out by his unusual styling which included wearing pajamas in public.

From Laurie Simmons, who photographs «Dutch Renaissance» style portraits of human - size silicone sex dolls in everyday settings, to Jordan Wolfson, whose controversial animatronic artwork, Female Figure will only move when someone makes eye contact with it.

One of the earliest works in this survey of 25 artists who have engaged with the human figure over the past quarter century is Bear and Policeman by the controversial American Jeff Koons, who is about to be the subject of a retrospective at the Whitney Museum in New York.

An iconic figure in avant - garde art in America during the 1950s, the composer and artist John Cage is noted in particular for his controversial 1952 «musical composition» 4 minutes 33 seconds (4» 33»)(which contained not a single note of music), along with his teachings at Black Mountain College on a variety of artistic topics: these include Indian Sand Painting, forms of Performance art such as Happenings (eg.

Among socially conscious artists meshing the dialogue concerning aesthetics with the controversial realm of international politics, Ai Weiwei (b. 1957, Beijing) is among the leading figures in the fight for justice.

While remaining a highly controversial figure in Paris, he became the most prominent French artist in New York during the 1950s, with the American abstract expressionists embracing Dubuffet as one of their own.

It is headed by Arthur B. Robinson, an eccentric scientist who has a long history of controversial entanglements with figures on the fringe of accepted research.

Four years ago Mark Karpeles became one of the most controversial figures in the fledgling cryptocurrency space after his exchange, Mt. Gox, abruptly went down along with 850,000 Bitcoin.