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From: beb@media-lab.media.mit.edu.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Brian E. Bradley)
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Subject: Re: Images vs. Text
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Date: 23 Apr 91 18:07:08 GMT
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  I do not believe the statement about crying people fleeing "Birth of a
Nation" in distress over their viewing of "giant heads": they had been seeing
them in films for over twenty years by then!  Not to mention "larger-than-life"
busts, statuary, paintings, etc...

  Another Urban Legend from the Past...