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See: intellectual, populists Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson now re-appropriated for a decidedly anti-populist Tea Party.
Jordan Zakarin: Walt Disney: The Myths Behind The Man Jordan Zakarin 2011
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See: intellectual, populists Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson now re-appropriated for a decidedly anti-populist Tea Party.
Jordan Zakarin: Walt Disney: The Myths Behind The Man Jordan Zakarin 2011
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Even esteemed MENA academics and some Arabic press which has directly translated it from its English form 'al-rabi' al-'arabi', have disappointingly re-appropriated the term.
Maytha Alhassen: Please Reconsider the Term "Arab Spring" Maytha Alhassen 2012
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See: intellectual, populists Ben Franklin and Thomas Jefferson now re-appropriated for a decidedly anti-populist Tea Party.
Jordan Zakarin: Walt Disney: The Myths Behind The Man Jordan Zakarin 2011
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Sutherland, who began as the reassuring expert of sorts, follows the CIA dicta famously re-appropriated by Barbara Kruger, going through a familiar authoritarian all-purpose dialectic useful for snafus, depressions, disasters, wars.
Michael Vazquez: 2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO) Michael Vazquez 2012
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Even esteemed MENA academics and some Arabic press which has directly translated it from its English form 'al-rabi' al-'arabi', have disappointingly re-appropriated the term.
Maytha Alhassen: Please Reconsider the Term "Arab Spring" Maytha Alhassen 2012
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Faith healer Kathryn Kuhlman, based on a Missouri-born evangelist from the 1960s - re-appropriated/inhabited by Justin Bond - sits perfectly poised upstage on her throne flanked by iridescent white lions.
Roya Rastegar: Justin Bond and the House of Whimsy: Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix) Roya Rastegar 2010
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The longing for Heaven expressed in those old Gospel songs was powerfully re-appropriated for use in the struggles here on earth -- Freedom, Justice, Peace.
Roy Zimmerman: Hope, Struggle and Change Roy Zimmerman 2011
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Faith healer Kathryn Kuhlman, based on a Missouri-born evangelist from the 1960s - re-appropriated/inhabited by Justin Bond - sits perfectly poised upstage on her throne flanked by iridescent white lions.
Roya Rastegar: Justin Bond and the House of Whimsy: Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix) Roya Rastegar 2010
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Nowadays, black actors have mostly re-appropriated the role, and the white Othello's that are occasionally cast have thankfully abandoned their blackface masks.
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