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Still, he put a lot of money into the campaign and launched some provocative tactics, such as offering million-dollar lotteries for people to sign petitions and register to vote.

I encountered Navarro in 2012, when he made a minor splash on the documentary film circuit with “Death by China,” a provocative if overwrought manifesto based on his book of the same title.

And while the notion that Lennon and Ono came to understand America through its television programming is provocative, too frequently the collage of grim news and glib ads leans toward the tritely ironic.

Journalists and some organizations have been edited out or been essentially chilled from being too provocative and critical for him to give a witty, brazen, but seldom truthful answer….

Delighting in her rainbow-coloured and sometimes provocative persona, she claimed last year to have invented "gay pop".