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Her face has the freshness of a junior-high-school yearbook photo--it might be the apotheosis of the junior-high-school yearbook photo--and there's more than a touch of Barbie in her long thighs and high bottom.
Toshogu, the mausoleum complex that he commanded for himself in his apotheosis, is extraordinary.
The apotheosis of his Japanese quest is the swooningly gorgeous Almond Blossom , painted in February of 1890.
What most thinking people in black studies find dangerous about the middlebrow apotheosis of the field is that it usually leads to the enshrinement of what Jacques Barzun calls thought-clichés, half-truths or non-truths that are accepted as the truth because someone said so in some reference book like Africana . Thought-clichés are like narcotics; people love them because they relieve them of the very thing they do not wish to do in any case, that is, think, think hard, and think critically and against the grain of their own beliefs or psychological needs or neurotic fantasy projections.
Templeton's magnificent crankhood reaches its apotheosis in his own writings.