Word: proto
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...instead of a superhero, a bitter, brilliant, at least half-insane resistance fighter known only as V, whose face was permanently hidden behind a grinning mask that, if you're English, you recognize as the face of Guy Fawkes. (Who--again, if you're English--you know as the proto-terrorist who tried and failed to blow up Parliament...
...Jungen's most crucial moment of inspiration for the Proto- types came during a trip to New York City in the late '90s, when he wandered into Manhattan's enormous Niketown store, where athletic shoes are displayed in glass cases like precious objects. "I came there straight from the Metropolitan Museum," he says. "I was fascinated that the Nikes were on display in this museum-like environment." From there, it was just a short step to making Nike-like things for a real museum. As opposed to a lot of art that plays seriously with ideas, Jungen's masks, some...
...also represented a member of the Greek terrorist organization November 17 who is serving multiple life sentences. British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw said the allegations are "complete nonsense" and Greek Public Order Minister George Voulgarakis said the incidents "had never and will never happen." Last week the Athens weekly Proto Thema named nine of 10 intelligence officers it said were involved. Ragoussis, who says he filed a complaint with the state prosecutor in July but decided to go public after lack of progress in the investigation, is suing the nine men for kidnap and torture...
...dorm phone to talk. Until now! Sam Teller ’08 met up with That Kid in the women’s restroom in Sever, the location of his red phone. Sam Teller: In section, you once said, “Reality is an illusion created by the proto-industrialist class of late 17th-century Europe.” What’s your favorite color? That Kid: To summarize, on page 476, Foucault says… ST: We didn’t read Foucalt for this class. TK: Right, but, the thing about my comprehensive knowledge...
...Letter to God” is proto-Aimee Mann without the believability. The existential crisis here is not actually meant to challenge her thoughts on the conditions of her life; it is just an exercise in intellectual auto-eroticism...