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  • Yara Sofia cleverly served humor and charm with an other-worldly avant-gard twist.

    John Gascot: RuPaul's Drag Race: Yara Sofia John Gascot 2011

  • Yara Sofia cleverly served humor and charm with an other-worldly avant-gard twist.

    John Gascot: RuPaul's Drag Race: Yara Sofia John Gascot 2011

  • This news breaking as we speak: New, exciting, avant-gard filmaking provacateur Sexman has recently been in talks to direct 1/3 of the upcoming Filmdrunk blockbuster The Atari Trilogy.

    SEXMAN RELEASES A SHORT FILM 2008

  • Iran has always been on the avant-gard of the revolution and democracy's quest.

    Democracy Now! 2009

  • Iran has always been on the avant-gard of the revolution and democracy's quest.

    Democracy Now! 2009

  • …describing and translating the many mutations that characterize our present cultural avant-gard.

    Warren Ellis » Links for 2010-05-30 2010

  • "ear," so habituated to the traditional forms of musicality, suffers from a sort of evolutional, tonal lag because it has not kept pace with the ever-evolving musical avant-gard, purportedly representative of an advanced species of humanity.

    The Rule of Reason 2010

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