Critics such as Bob Stanley and Simon Reynolds like to draw a line at Live Aid in the summer of 1985, separating the playfully subversive drive of New Pop from studio-drunk MOR decadence, the career of The Eurythmics being the perfect case study.
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Obviously, the entire movie is exploring the subversive nature of suburbia.
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In Good Night, Oscar, Sean Hayes plays Oscar Levant: Hollywood actor, concert pianist, and the most subversive wit ever to appear on television during its Golden Age.
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The “subversive” artwork shows an image of a black and white ostrich with its head in the sand while a songbird perches on its back.
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At the time we were making the show I said to David: ‘This is really a subversive television show for a major network! I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like this before.
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This subversive world also influenced fashion, as documented through photographs by Lee Miller and Man Ray, and the garments and other items that came out of the association between Dalí and Elsa Schiaparelli, such as the powder compact in the shape of a telephone dial.
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This haunting but slyly subversive documentary about three present-day nushu specialists uses the practice to examine women’s changing roles in a China modernising at breakneck speed – though the forces of resistance are evident in the numerous episodes of impressive mansplaining surrounding this female preserve.
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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returns to Tehran, Iran on February 1, 1979
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When the Shah was overthrown in 1979 and Ayatollah Khomeini took power, the religious leader promptly banned music, calling it a subversive influence.
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Often subversive and imbued with the artist’s signature sense of humor, they coax the viewer into comprehending what they mean.
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Jessie Reyez, Yessie Eternal reina of laying emotions bare, Canadian-Colombian singer Jessie Reyez employs subversive lyricism and genre-bending instrumentation in a raw, sonically biting display of empowered heartbreak.
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That show helped build hip-hop as a cultural genre and as a subversive social force.
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We are incredibly proud of this brilliant and subversive genre-bending series.
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Taking this subversive viewpoint, Cobra Kai is four seasons of self-aware, light-hearted and full-of-heart fun.
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Whether it was the iconic nature of his standing in the early nineties, as hip-hop began to take the baton from rock as the most subversive music genre around or the singer’s searing and sincere lyrics, the Nirvana man has been a fixation for the hip-hop world for decades.
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It collected some of the most innovative and subversive names in British music together in one place.
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Other children’s characters have been subject to subversive adult humour, but Mitchell writes that the humour is far more dark and vicious toward Barney “than just about any other popular cultural icon I can think of”.
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‘Bad Guy’ by Billie EilishLike fellow pop royal Lorde, Eilish was just a teen when she dropped this subversive ode to bad behaviour.
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Now their 2017 musical “As You Like It” — by turns buoyant, touching and raffishly subversive — is at the San Francisco Playhouse through Jan.
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Vicky Krieps is perfect as the deliriously subversive “Sissi.
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So we are some place that is attempting to do things in a subversive way, a backwards-ass way, a way that might drive us out of business.
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Its one subversive feature was that its characters, bilingual Russians, didn’t see themselves as exiles; it was arguably the first piece of Russian pop culture to present emigration as anything other than tragic.
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“Inside Job”Creators Shion Takeuchi and Alex Hirsch’s “Inside Job” had already given us a wonderfully subversive debut season that not-so-subtly pokes fun at government agencies and conspiracy theories that somehow seem razor-sharp here in animation.
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The subversive intent of the playwright’s art and activism has long been underestimated.
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The complications began early when, after a period of salty hip-hop music, two characters (Maya Williams and Sabrina Gallego) referred to as Persons in Charge proudly introduced themselves by their gender identifications and then launched a few zingers at the audience to establish the subversive undercurrent within the play.
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But there’s still something subversive about seeing undergarments (literally) hanging out.
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This third season is just wacky in very fun, subversive ways.
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9 of 10The subversive Father Christmas – one who’s really more of a Scrooge, who hates kids and takes liberties rather than giving gifts – is a familiar sight now, but few have ever been as authentically, grubbily horrid as Billy Bob Thornton’s Willie.
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ChumbawambaScreenshot: ChumbawambaEveryone remembers where they were when they learned that Chumbawamba was more than a ‘90s one-hit-wonder and actually a long-running anarcho-communist punk band with a loyal following in jolly ol’ England; it may even be happening to you right now! Mel Magazine is marking the 25th anniversary of 1997 and wrote about the alcohol-propelled Trojan horse that was “Tubthumping,” a song that brought the band’s subversive politics to the top of the Billboard Alternative charts and provided the pop culture zeitgeist with one of the most memorable choruses of the decade.
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The stop-motion film, which took more than 1,000 days to shoot and features a dark adult, subversive take on the traditional children’s story of a puppet-come-to-life, earned more than 340,000 engagements on Twitter.
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"Just like the combination of superheroes in a college setting in an incredibly subversive R-rated world is, yeah," he explained.
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In Good Night, Oscar, Hayes plays Oscar Levant, Hollywood actor, concert pianist and the most subversive wit ever to appear on television during its Golden Age.
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Brendan Hoffman for The New York TimesKyiv on Wednesday continued its crackdown on what it called “subversive activities” linked to a branch of the Orthodox church that answers to the Moscow patriarch, as Ukrainian security services raided another 13 monasteries, churches and community centers.
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Anne Ryan Collages spotlights this subversive cultural forerunner, an artist who sanctioned a new mysterious marriage between American poetry and abstraction.
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But as well as adding to the din we are exposed to on social media, political memes offer a subversive means to challenge dominant discourses of authoritarian governments.
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Bois is well-known, and in her own right, for her subversive take on fashion garments and accessories made from found objects.
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A notable inclusion on the lineup, RESISTANCE’s recently introduced artists carry with them subversive creative identities and a fierce renown to match.
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"Beavis and Butt-Head" was subversive and raunchy, especially for its time, and the titular Highland teen duo made fun of celebs like they were anyone else.
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Godard’s output of more than 90 features, documentaries, shorts and videos defined him as one of the most productive, mischievous, didactic, subversive and polarizing of moviemakers.
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Taking this subversive viewpoint, Cobra Kai is four seasons of self-aware, light-hearted and full-of-heart fun.
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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLast month, the Oscar-winning screenwriter and director of Get Out, Jordan Peele, shared a clip of the moment that he told Brandon Perea he’d booked his first major film role – in Peele’s subversive UFO horror, Nope.
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Taking this subversive viewpoint, Cobra Kai is four seasons of self-aware, light-hearted and full-of-heart fun.
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[1] Cyber-enabled influence operations refer to targeted, online information campaigns designed to shift public opinion through manipulative or subversive means.
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Some Like It Hot is far and away the best of the bunch, perhaps because the film itself has subversive ideas about gender, production code notwithstanding, that can be teased out into something more explicit.
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“Going to Hell” is a raucous, apocalyptic, fiddle-driven bluegrass hoedown that both inverts the evangelistic sales pitch (“Do you really want to go to heaven?”) while offering a subversive counter reading of the “crossroads and the blues” myth.
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A subversive series with a huge cast featuring Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh and J.
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I suspect Barker’s greatest achievement is still the Regeneration trilogy, but these two novels work in a subversive way to burrow beneath what we think we know about the Iliad and present an alternative narrative.
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This third season is just wacky in very fun, subversive ways.
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That 1988 album of the same name gave out subversive hits like “Fuck the Police.
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Whether it was the iconic nature of his standing in the early nineties, as hip-hop began to take the baton from rock as the most subversive music genre around or the singer’s searing and sincere lyrics, the Nirvana man has been a fixation for the hip-hop world for decades.
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This subversive tale of a fairy-tale ogre and a rebellious princess who get an unconventional happy ending forced Disney to confront some home truths.
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Even so, the stirring pratfalls and well-placed dirty jokes make “It’s a Wonderful Binge” a keenly subversive Christmas movie.
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A subversive series with a huge cast featuring Steven Yeun, Sandra Oh and J.
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From Lora Hlavsa’s bursting florals and portrait illustration to Michelle Brusegaard’s subversive prints, Arbeiter Brewing Co.
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(That explains his massive collection of Smurf figurines—or does it?)
Spoiler Alert isn’t as fresh or subversive as Bros or Fire Island, but it demonstrates that with appropriate restraint and grounded performances, familiar tropes can still satisfy.
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The American designer is known for pushing fashion’s boundaries, so it’s only natural that Gigi’s accompanying beauty look was equally subversive and unexpected.
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In less than two years, an angry, controversial white rapper from Detroit had stuck up a middle finger at the pop-cultural landscape, sparking congressional fear and outrage from GLAAD and women’s groups over his subversive language and violent imagery.
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The “Gangsta’s Paradise” emcee, who died Wednesday at 59, will reprise his role of Kwanzaa-bot, the subversive series’ Kwanzaa counterpart to its Santa Claus Robot and the Hanukkah Zombie.
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Taking this subversive viewpoint, Cobra Kai is four seasons of self-aware, light-hearted and full-of-heart fun.
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Woke was loosely based on the life of its co-creator, Keith Knight, an American cartoonist and musician known for his accessible yet subversive comic strip The K Chronicles.
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It’s something that very confidently stretches the boundaries of the genre that it’s identified the most with, a superhero story, but it does so in such a subversive and fun way that is entirely character based.
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Tim later approached me, during a musical performance meant to act as cover for subversive activities in the atrium.
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The vulgar humour might be less subversive than it was 30 years ago, but with so many hits from that period ageing badly, it’s refreshing to see the self-destructive dweebs haven’t changed.
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So did the music’s extraordinary compassion for its characters, the almost subversive sense of humanity that glows within its dissonance.
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Unlike his competitors, Philippe Starck has always tried to convey a political, subversive message, which hasn’t always pleased the crowds.
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So, the saucy Gen-Xer whipped up this X-rated design: a subtle but subversive “girly sock” with a red waffle-knit pattern that looked innocent enough — that is, until you took a closer look at the turned-over cuff to spot the row of not-quite-hidden phalluses.
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It was a truly cross-cultural behemoth, which partly explains why my mam didn’t come to it the way I came to discover similarly subversive albums by the likes of Hole and Bikini Kill – by digging through music blogs and Limewire in the solitary glow of a computer.
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“The most subversive people are those who ask questions.
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If that tension between disparate styles and unlikely tones was intended, one might say that "Emancipation" is a keen attempt to recapture the subversive slave narratives in Blaxploitation.
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Starting at the top, Dave Hickey acknowledges the components of pleasure and desire of beauty, but then elaborates on beauty’s subversive potential as an incendiary ingredient in political art.
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People from around the world have gathered here for Art Basel – the annual art fair that’s garnered a cult following thanks to its celebrity-littered events, subversive art, and non-stop parties.
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The ranting, confrontational noise rock frontman is pretty much a cliché in itself in 2022, but Raygun Busch assumes the role with a genuinely subversive vulnerability, making songs like the disarmingly blunt ‘Why’ and nine-minute aural panic attack ‘grimacesmokingweed.
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Other films of his include Chafed Elbows (about a man having an affair with his mother), Greaser’s Palace (an “acid Western” spoofing the life of Jesus), and Too Much Sun (a subversive comedy in which a father bequeaths his inheritance to whichever of his two gay and lesbian children first produces a grandchild).
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The latter action is almost an art piece in itself, a subversive take on a now-infamous phrase used by Richard Sackler at a launch party for OxyContin, in which he predicted that “a blizzard of prescriptions” would follow.
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Following the December 10 raid in Kharkiv, the SBU said it had found another monk who possessed a Russian passport and is now investigating whether he was involved in intelligence gathering for Moscow or involved in other subversive activities.
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'Hedi's clothes sparkled and glittered on the runway, juxtaposing this with matte skin and matte textured eye make-up made the complete style more subversive and authentic.
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See our picks for his 10 best films, ranked in order, below:10) Hancock (2008)Mostly a misfire, Peter Berg’s subversive spin on the superhero genre looks ahead of its time now in the age of irreverent takes like “The Boys” and “The Suicide Squad.
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Astra Magazine, Spiegelman said, was “both unusual and exciting, a glamorous and subversive literary project, a breath of fresh air and hope.
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