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Category: HiLo Heroes

Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.

Duke Ellington

By: Joe Alterio

Everything that ever was, and is now, and ever will be.

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William Kentridge

By: Alix Lambert

“An art of ambiguity, contradiction, uncompleted gestures.”

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George Steiner

By: Jerrold Freitag

He puts Hermes back in charge of hermeneutics.

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Vladimir Nabokov

By: Devin McKinney

Vlad the Impaler was happy to play the role of an absent God.

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Glen Campbell

By: Devin McKinney

A reach for beauty to the exclusion of the world itself.

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Charlotte Rae

By: Brian Berger

Before Diff’rent Strokes and The Facts of Life!

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Ronny Elliott

By: Brian Berger

An avuncular yet urgent singer-songwriter.

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Harold Lloyd

By: Robert Wringham

Acrobatic satire of American go-getter culture.

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George Takei

By: Adam McGovern

An athletic, quick-witted sex symbol.

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Bas Jan Ader

By: Franklin Bruno

A slim, reticent oeuvre.

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Robert Tressell

By: Robert Wringham

He wrote a funny, angry portrait of working-class life.

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Merce Cunningham

By: Karinne Keithley Syers

Movement is protagonist; dance’s meaning is action.

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George Steele

By: Tom Nealon

A green-tongued and hairy-backed icon.

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Garry Kasparov

By: Tor Aarestad

In each of his fields of engagement, he stands for humanity.

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Michael Herr

By: Anthony Miller

He divined messages from helmet and flak jacket inscriptions.

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