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...crux of Martin's argument revolves around the "Hamitic Myth," an interpretation of the Book of Genesis that justifies African slavery as part of a curse upon Noah's son Ham, who is supposed to be the progenitor of all Blacks...
...history, and the notion that Impressionism was a matter of innocent eyes doing sunlight with broken touches without "academic" preconceptions is strictly for the birds in the sunlit trees. What's wrong with the name Impressionism is that it suggests quick shots of fleeting things. Yet the main progenitor of New Painting was the most solid, stubborn and material painter imaginable, Gustave Courbet. A Renoir like Bather with a Terrier, 1870, could hardly exist without the example of Courbet's wardrobe nudes. Courbet was the doubting Thomas of painting, the great empiricist who wanted to verify everything by touch...
...filled with two-dollar words that actually add up. "We are going over a Niagara of psychobabble in a barrel full of holes," he complains. "We have become a country of ragged recidivists dedicated to the proposition that all parents are created equally bad and the progeny-slash- progenitor dynamic should be the landfill for all our personal shortcomings...
...repaired by proteins that serve as miniature mechanics. Occasionally, though, cells with defects in their DNA will continue to divide, eventually forming small growths. The more cell-division cycles an organism undergoes, the more likely it is to accumulate colonies of abnormal cells, each the offspring of a single progenitor. By the time humans reach middle adulthood, then, their bodies contain millions of cells that have taken at least one step toward cancer...
Sure enough, Blanca grows up to be a rebellious Winona Ryder, and Pedro turns into a revolutionary played by Antonio Banderas (of Philadelphia) -- enemy of the privileges Esteban holds dear, progenitor (out of wedlock) of the granddaughter he holds dearer still. When the fascists stage their inevitable coup, it is, of course, the bastard Esteban begot in that long-ago dawn who turns up trying to torture Blanca into revealing Pedro's whereabouts...