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The Getty Conservation Institute in California recently sponsored a virtual-reality recreation of Queen Nefertari's tomb in Egypt, which purports to let cyberexplorers "look at the 3200-year-old wall paintings ...
The film, which purports to explore the circumstances under which a celebrated anthropologist, Ethan Powell (Anthony Hopkins), disappeared among Rwandan gorillas and emerged two years later as a mute and wild-eyed killer of park rangers, is loaded with radical credos--ideas evocative of Kafka, deep ecology, and Dian Fossey at her most gorillaphilic.
Most stunning of all, however, was the Times' assertion that the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, which purports to be a serious research institution, "issued a statement saying the President was not anti-Semitic " [italics Chatterbox's].
But like so many protest movements, it partakes of the very vices it purports to critique.
(Of course, everything Roberts writes purports to show that Reagan was right and his critics were wrong.)