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All the avant-garde artists included are actually academic, both in the sense of deriving their ideas about cultural difference from French literary critics and in the sense that they follow the dictates of others about what art should be.
A combination of Mexican and prison cultural values dictates the behavior of pintos inside prison and out on the street.
Of course, the formula dictates that all his allies must abandon him so he can march down the street, wielding a shotgun, bleeding but with the iron back in his spine, to prove to those city cops what he's really made of.
The cage diameter for cylindrical cages and cage height in rectangular cages (where cage is inserted and rotated 90°) dictates the extent of medial facetectomy needed for cage insertion.
You can see Klein's failure to obey the media's quasi-menstraul cycle (which dictates that this is a Gore Comeback moment) as stubborn, heroic individualism.