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But Manson is more horrible, more crude, more theatrical, and more anti-social than any of its antecedents.
Like their '30s antecedents, the brothers rely on B-grade genre pics to generate the revenues to pay for artier films.
Neither Ranke nor Gibbon invented the citational or literary footnote; Grafton slogs back through time in search of antecedents.
Though their antecedents are still shadowy, they were much influenced by the Olmec.
The popular rhythms are a unique mixture of Spanish and African influences, though the instruments traditionally used have antecedents going back further than the Spanish colonial and African slave imports.