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...they embarked on a vicious plan of indoctrination. My parents enlisted every crunchy liberal concern they could dredge up from the recesses of their proto-yuppie minds. They preached about animal rights and the four food groups, anti-commercialism and sanitary concerns. Because they were bent on a mission of self-justification and shameless evasion, I missed out on Gunther Gebel Williams. Several times. And now he's retired...
...from its position on the wall. Future control of the foundation, he decreed, would be in the hands of trustees appointed by Lincoln University, a small black college in Lincoln University, Pa. Since then, alumni of the school he founded in 1922, which replaced factual art history with a proto-New Age veneration of beauty, have increasingly formed a fiercely loyal and protective cult...
...DOLL'S HOUSE (PBS, March 29, 9 p.m. on most stations). Ibsen's war-horse gets a powerful, unpatronizing new production in this Masterpiece Theater import. Juliet Stevenson (Truly, Madly, Deeply) perfectly calibrates Nora's progress from docile wife to proto-feminist, and Trevor Eve avoids easy caricature as her husband Torvald. Superb...
They remember Yale quarterback Darin Kehler running the wishbone like a proto-typical Big Eight signal-caller...
...funniest. It started life as an anthropological photo of an African corn bin. This reminded Ernst of an elephant. Then he saw a swollen human figure in it -- a failed behemoth, which he associated with the absurd and nasty king of Alfred Jarry's proto-Surrealist comedy, Ubu Roi. Add to that a dirty children's rhyme he remembered from his school days, which in English would have been a limerick; it concerned an elephant in Sumatra that tried to, well, connect with its grandmother. The naked woman in the foreground foreshadows the title of Ernst's great collage-narrative...