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Airline language is similarly atavistic.
When they grow a little older and get serious about becoming employed, the green hair and atavistic piercings disappear.
The do-it-yourself, bootstrapping ethos is admirable, but Master P also represents something more atavistic.
The basic template seems to be an amalgam of The Wizard of Oz and Happy Days : The relationship between Luke (Mark Hamill) and Han (Harrison Ford) is just the relationship between Richie and the Fonz; the Wookiee is cloned directly from the Cowardly Lion; and the scene in which C-3PO is dismembered by the Sand People is completely appropriated from the scene in which the Scarecrow is dismembered by flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz . It is true that The Wizard is a story implanted deep in the memory banks of the viewing public--but it is a stretch to call Star Wars ' appeal atavistic.
Evolutionary psychologists explain presidential philandering as an atavistic impulse left over from the early days of the human race.