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Category: HiLo Heroes

Highbrows, lowbrows, nobrows, hilobrows.

Thomas Frank

By: Tor Aarestad

He was John Brown and his people were slaves to big business hucksterism.

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Tod Dockstader

By: Gary Panter

Warning messages, hysterical laughter, the cawing of crows and buzzards.

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Spike Lee

By: Brian Berger

“SCHOOL DAZE sets race back 200 years.”

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Tommy Cooper

By: Greg Rowland

“Uhzz, I really don’t feel very well.”

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Richard Francis Burton

By: Anthony Miller

A resolute seeker of forbidden knowledge.

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Yoko Kanno

By: Tucker Cummings

From anime to pop, this composer doesn’t think about genre.

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J.D. Beresford

By: Joshua Glenn

He wrote two of the Radium Age’s best sf novels.

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The Iron Sheik

By: Tom Nealon

“Russia number 1, Iran number 1, USA [spits]”

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Robert Bingham

By: Alix Lambert

“I’d probably break down and cry.”

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Osa Helen Johnson

By: Elina Shatkin

She married adventure, but made it her own.

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Antônio Conselheiro

By: Jacob Mikanowski

A rebel who fought injustice with the promise of utopia.

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Hester Lucy Stanhope

By: Elina Shatkin

“I am the sun, the star, the earl, the lion, the light from heaven and the Queen.”

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Hollis Frampton

By: Jacob Mikanowski

His films are pentagrams for the conjuration of narrative.

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Linda Fiorentino

By: Adrienne Crew

Like a comet, she appears now and then to dazzle us.

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Donald Davidson

By: Franklin Bruno

One of his key ideas is “anomalous monism.”

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