Stone was reminded of a contentious interview with Richard Nixon many years before, when Harkness had gotten angry with good effect.

Before leaving Washington, Mr. Bush sat for a contentious interview with RTE, Irish state television, which was broadcast here on Thursday night.

But during a contentious interview on national television on Monday, when pressed on whether he threw away his Vietnam war medals in a protest in 1971, he defended himself and attacked the president.

This was most notable in a famously contentious interview conducted by journalist Seth Mnookin for the now-defunct online music magazine Addicted to Noise.

The same attention also brought additional scrutiny on her record and financial history, including a contentious interview on WGMD radio.

In February 2008, Cook had a contentious interview with actor Clive Swift.

And there was his snub of NBC's Jim Gray after Gray's contentious interview with Pete Rose.

Towards the end of a contentious interview, Sonnen took off his microphone and bailed on the conversation.

He didn't say a word during the sometimes contentious eight-minute interview between Robert Lipsyte, the host of the program, and the three colleagues.

Knoblauch was curt in a contentious, short interview with reporters.