Bogza was nonetheless often ambiguous in his relations with the authorities, while his public statements oscillated between covert satire and open praise. Between 1966 and 1973, he was a contributor to "Contemporanul" magazine, and was well known in Romania for regularly publishing short essays in that magazine (some of them were also read on national radio). Bogza also had a permanent column in the influential magazine "România Literară". His gestures of defiance include his display of support for Lucian Pintilie, a director whose work was being censored. In 1968, having just seen Pintilie's subversive film "The Reenactment" shortly before it was banned, Bogza scribbled in the snow set on the director's car the words: "Long live Pintilie! The humble Geo Bogza"; the statement was recorded with alarm by agents of Romania's secret police, the Securitate, who had witnessed the incident.