But dilettante hiking is still hiking; dilettante yoga is still yoga; dilettante bicycling is still bicycling.
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Trump is obviously a dilettante without a discernible geopolitical vision.
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That turned me into a dilettante about reading the labels.
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I am a dilettante, but I am still off the couch.
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Despite Mary's literary pedigree, she was often dismissed as a dilettante.
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If only she weren't playing such a worm and a dilettante.
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The dilettante will have to bide his time: c'est la guerre.
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Breakingviews Elliott Management has just shown a dilettante how activism is done.
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But he isn't the self-destructive dilettante his legend's detractors claim, either.
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Oscar-winning actor, occasional activist, and reportorial dilettante Sean Penn, of course.
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"I was a dilettante and knew nothing," he later wrote in his autobiography.
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James had Isabel turn down the same two suitors (an aristocrat and a social activist) in order to marry a dilettante, but Eliot kills off the dilettante so that Dorothea can remarry, while James keeps Isabel stuck in her bad decision.
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But when it comes to climate change, he's anything but a dabbler or dilettante.
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She was the ultimate brilliant dilettante, skipping across fields to deliver powerful, glancing blows.
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Maybe we have become consumers rather than citizens, dilettante "apprentices" instead of self-reliant masters.
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You can be earnest or flippant, plainspoken or baroque, blunt or coy, dilettante or geek.
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He may not be a daring orator, but he is no dilettante either, they say.
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Will Self, an author, described him as "the dilettante's dilettante", and his eager curiosity is contagious.
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The former, a dilettante Moroccan striker, spent three years at the club after joining in 2010.
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When Annette and Elliot separate because of Annette's restlessness, she canoodles with a disheveled dilettante (Robert Schwartzman).
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Mr. Rostow was an economist, and in foreign affairs Mr. Halberstam shows him to be a dilettante.
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A Master of Defence was not to be mistaken as a dilettante, or even a 'regular' practitioner of fighting.
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Vera (Mia Katigbak) is mother to Momo (Tiffany Villarin), also a doctor, and Twee (Tina Chilip), a dilettante photographer.
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That said, you probably wouldn't want to be an open heart surgery patient being operated on by a dilettante.
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A dilettante, a kid so despised by North Florida that even the Cubans couldn't put him over the top.
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From my point of view — that of a dilettante — this is a bad PR move and not a lot more.
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Lindsay Bluth Fünke is, like a majority of her siblings, an entitled dilettante without much of an instinct for domesticity.
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But it carried the same message: This highbrow dilettante is not like the average American — a death knell for most politicians.
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When a curious dilettante or a serious student wants some context, they'll still likely turn to library loans or free ebooks.
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As Cecile, the 1803-year-old daughter to Niven's charming dilettante philanderer, she's playful and petty, teasing her dad about his affairs.
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Josie's had it with Carl, the lunkheaded, feckless father of her children, a good-looking dilettante who's vulgar and spineless and utterly undependable.
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Johnson was an opportunist, a dilettante and a showman, better at finessing the social, bureaucratic and economic obstacles to building than at actual design.
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" He was accustomed, he wrote, to being called a "snob, arrogant dilettante and cad," characterizations he was inclined to dismiss as "so much hogwash.
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George Herman Ruth, the well-known dilettante, after a prolonged absence, will return home shortly, touching first, second, and third on the way 'round.
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With top-shelf cred, less brand jealousy and probably less-demanding terms, Magna sounds like a good match for a well-heeled dilettante like Apple.
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He was no dilettante: He made serious ethnographic studies of indigenous communities, from the Piegan of the Great Plains to the Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island.
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I'm just not sure if paying for a good navigational experience (as well as a quality educational one) is worth it for dilettante crafters like myself.
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If you seek to do many things, you'll taste a wider variety of human goods, but you may end up a well-rounded mediocrity — a dilettante.
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He's a wealthy dilettante (The National Review), an empty shell (The New Republic), a teenage hacker (USA Today), a master class in male entitlement (The Guardian).
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My knowledge of American music is dilettante, which feels like a handicap when confronting the novel's multiple allusions — some overt, some oblique — to the American songscape.
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"This was not someone who saw this as, Oh, I've been an entertainer, and now as a dilettante I'm going to run for office," Ornstein said.
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He pairs terrible ideas with an alarming temperament; he's a racist, a sexist, and a demagogue, but he's also a narcissist, a bully, and a dilettante.
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And I share a birthday with the rapper and dilettante Kreayshawn, who once tweeted, accurately as far I know, that not being chill is a sin.
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The Verge spoke to Epstein about "kind" versus "wicked" environments, the importance of doing instead of planning, and the difference between having range and being a dilettante.
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This season has dabbled at substance with the disinterest of a dilettante: Vampirism as a metaphor for AIDS, fame as a sort of death, motherhood as infection.
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For a would-be woman president to let her decisions be driven by "feelings" and emotion could be deadly, as would the impression that she's a dilettante.
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The Philadelphia Inquirer, in its 2007 profile, cautioned readers that Mr. Weymouth was "more than an amiable dilettante, amusing swell and flamboyant eccentric" before cataloging his conservation efforts.
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In reality, he's a dilettante who meanders from career to career, working vaguely at a lifestyle magazine for Brooklyn fathers and seeking fulfillment through cinematography classes and carpentry.
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Smith's 2010 memoir, Just Kids, showed an unsure dilettante in development, navigating a big city and holding her own with heiresses, superstars, rock stars, and everyone in between.
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I said he pairs terrible ideas with an alarming temperament; that he's a racist, a sexist, and a demagogue, but also a narcissist, a bully, and a dilettante.
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Mr. Rocha Minter, who is in his 20s, has obvious filmmaking talent, but he is also, to judge by this evidence, a sensationalist dilettante with a mean streak.
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In 1941, Mr. Stirling, an aristocratic dilettante who found his calling as a soldier, was recuperating in a Cairo hospital from injuries sustained during an ill-judged parachute jump.
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The Sun City Girls also drew on its members' travels around the world, their songs sometimes seeming like dilettante approximations of West African guitar music or Southeast Asian pop.
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Omarosa claims that Trump thought Jared Kushner was gay Jared Kushner is typically seen as a useless, corrupt dilettante by the left and a effeminate, globalist dandy by the right.
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Here's what we know: Yesterday, millions of Americans elected a buffoonish dilettante, a man with no ideas, no political experience, and no understanding of the world he wants to lead.
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"I think when he first got on the scene, he seemed to be more of a financier ... kind of a dilettante playing in politics by writing big checks," Roe said.
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With Brooklyn-born producer Tony Visconti and nerdy conceptual soundscape dilettante Brian Eno, he pushed the limits of what a pop record could be, firstly with Low and then Heroes.
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He hates Thoreau ("a dilettante") and fans of Kerouac, and may be the first person to have followed through on a threat to use John Grisham novels as toilet paper.
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To my American, art history dilettante eye, his work looked like a mix of Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat, but it's really part of a tradition that predates both those artists.
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Even before signing on, the Shanghai-born Mr. Sheng was already what he called a "dilettante Redologist," a nickname for the literary scholars who have dedicated their lives to studying the novel.
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The hedge fund paints him as a dilettante who is more interested in being at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, or meeting with President Trump than in running a business.
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In a running subplot in the new season, the dilettante Shohei describes how he doesn't want to choose between working as an actor and being a model or journalist or furniture designer.
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Go from job to job and you may be labeled a dilettante; stick with one thing too long, and you're rigid and risk averse; declare your indecision and you don't have it together.
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To Mr. Band, who had remained loyal to Mr. Clinton when others abandoned him post-impeachment, and who was instrumental in building the Clinton Foundation from scratch, Ms. Clinton seemed like a dilettante.
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I mention this history because it is Kushner's nightmare to be thought of as a dilettante—someone who rode on the back, saw a picture in a magazine, entered search terms in Google.
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The tragedy of the novel is that Isabel chooses the wrong suitor — the scheming dilettante Gilbert Osmond — and the question hanging over the book's last section is whether she'll leave him or not.
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Inspired by an 22929 French comedy and up-to-the-minute electoral politics, Beau Willimon's new play stars Uma Thurman as a D.C. dilettante with a husband, a lover and a Twitter account.
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Inspired by an 1885 French comedy and up-to-the-minute electoral politics, Beau Willimon's new play stars Uma Thurman as a D.C. dilettante with a husband, a lover and a Twitter account.
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Jason Hart, a part-time actor who calls himself a "dilettante sneaker reseller," said James's recent shoes had almost no value in the resale market because collectors do not like the shoes' appearance.
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At 8:05 PM, the clock still says it's 8:45 PM. At some point, things get hazier and I've taken an Adderall and consumed the Catherine et Pierre Breton La Dilettante Vouvray Brut.
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McGee is a likeable, noble, sardonic houseboat-dwelling dilettante in all his books, but the horror he endures (and by necessity, causes) in this one was as powerful as any "literary" novel I've read.
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They include a humorless working-class Communist painter (Emond); a one-eyed Trotskyite (Esper); a gay dilettante (Urie, in the show's most affecting performance) and a self-dramatizing analysand actress (a miscast Grace Gummer).
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He will NEVER be able to marry his beautiful, morally upstanding daughter off to Mo Williams' perverted dilettante son, solidifying his alliances and collecting a sizeable land dowry he can use to grow expensive grains.
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For years, he was dismissed as a political dilettante who could not convert his personal popularity into significant seats in parliament for the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI), or Pakistan Movement for Justice, he founded.
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Thirdly, and most importantly, they'll point out that these Trek jokes are tired and unless I can say something clever about ST:TNG S02E11 I'm really just a dilettante who should have quit while he was ahead.
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He was mocked unfairly for his habit of hopping onto tables and counters, and somewhat fairly for a dilettante-esque approach to the campaign, which included Medium posts that sometimes read like old MySpace journal entries.
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One furious reader whose girlfriend was in a musical I had savaged wrote a letter to the paper where I worked, calling me a dilettante and suggesting I ought to be selling shoes, not reviewing drama.
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For his part, Faggioli, an admirer of the Francis pontificate, has frequently condemned Douthat as an intellectual dilettante, criticizing his lack of formal theological training and what he sees as Douthat's partisan perspective on church issues.
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Role Call: Florence Foster Jenkins, the wealthy 1940s dilettante who became known as the "worst singer in the world" It's hardly revelatory to say that Meryl Streep, the world's most celebrated actress, turns in an extraordinary performance.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads I'm no snob for typography — a dilettante at best, really — but the Nobel Prize's logo redesign is a God-awful way to modernize the 123-year-old symbol of human ingenuity.
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But while it deserves credit for also standing up to the real white supremacists and neo-Nazis, its dilettante style of "resistance" lacks the guts and vision to really defeat those ideologies or create positive social change.
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" Another group, the National Association of Police Organizations, directly called for a boycott, referring to Kaepernick as "a shallow dilettante seeking to gain notoriety by disrespecting the flag for which so many Americans have fought and died.
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Ben Shapiro is the child of a television studio executive and film composer and grew up in Hollywood as a private school dilettante who got his high school education for a tuition comparable to most Ivy League universities.
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This is a movement by and for the coffee-snob, but according to Day, even a coffee dilettante like myself should be able to use the Blue Bottle dripper to produce a perfect cup of joe every time.
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The dilettante often does not know the "correct" way to do something, and so can sometimes be better placed to happen upon an innovative way of doing something that the professional, in their fixed way of thinking, wouldn't.
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Hoffmann, the captain, deals with rising tensions on U-612 — he's unfairly seen as a dilettante and a coward — while Strasser is gradually radicalized through her contact with a resistance leader who happens to be American (Lizzy Caplan).
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Regardless of whether you believe she's the next natural heir to the makeup mogul throne or a dilettante whose talents are better suited to social media than running a successful brand, there's no arguing that Kylie Jenner made lip kits famous.
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Bannon, Trump's campaign chair, seemingly may play Tom Hagen to Trump's Sonny Corleone as chief strategist, but with one key distinction: Bannon as consigliere likely would push for Trump to remain the hot-headed dilettante that he has been from day one.
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It's not like a lot of their husbands necessarily wanted them to keep working, but the emphasis on work as being the person who brings in the money to the household is so strong, as is the stereotype of wealthy women as dilettante consumers.
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And meanwhile, according to one of my colleagues at Motherboard, highjacking internet-enabled devices is the latest fad for un-creative, dilettante hackers who want to build their very own robot armies and attack their enemies by overwhelming their servers with too much traffic.
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Mr. Jacoby said that Mr. Hambleton took one look at his "crummy little camera" and dismissed him as a dilettante, which had the collateral benefit of allowing him unfettered access to the reclusive artist while he painted and battled with dealers and would-be mentors.
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Masson's drawing "A Paul Éluard" (1924) has a dream-like, dilettante quality to it, as the fluid but broken lines seem to move the eye between one partial figure-object and the next, almost as if the objects were being swept down a rowdy river.
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Even if you don't know the difference between a Vermeer and a van Gogh, you can still find a way to embrace the dilettante life with a new crop of beauty products that pay homage to iconic artists, both contemporary and otherwise, without getting too esoteric.
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Caroline comes off as a dilettante, and Kasia starts out as something of a Joan of Arc, a passionate if naïve operative in the Polish resistance whose feelings of guilt when she takes down her entire family after a botched assignment aren't plumbed in any meaningful way.
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In such conditions, it is tempting to suck up all the available oxygen, to transform your party first and foremost into a vehicle for rejecting a bigoted dilettante whom it is difficult to imagine performing the basic functions of the presidency, much less advancing even modest national goals.
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That's why I was excited to try out the new coffee dripper from Blue Bottle, a roaster in Oakland and byword for third-wave coffee, which promised that through the miracles of modern science even a coffee dilettante like me could manage to brew a damn good cup.
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The one thing Musk — and his company's shareholders — can be sure of: The deal assures that the long-running argument over whether he's more of a technical visionary or a financial dilettante who is indifferent to short-term losses and milestones will keep on going for at least several more years.
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The forum on which I did it, I think, was misplaced, and the way I did it was in such a dilettante way, and it was wrapped in all this other nonsense about the people that run the world and their wealth, and that it was just so contorted and contrived.
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" (He was ultimately persuaded to tone it down.) He promoted the library as he promoted himself and aimed to make it "a workshop for scholars including every painter's apprentice or working boy or streetcar man who wishes to learn, just as much as it includes the Greek professors or the art dilettante.
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A dilettante is also someone self-taught, an autodidact, which is interesting to think about in a field such as pop music, for instance: The entire history of pop music is one that's been shaped and innovated by amateurs, by people teaching themselves music in their bedrooms or in pub backrooms—not in music conservatoires.
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I was hardly a newcomer, I had lived in Sofia for two years, but I had remained a kind of dilettante of the city, and soon— though the center is small and we hadn't gone far from Slaveykov and Graf Ignatiev, the part of it I knew best—I had no idea where we were.
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This "completely subjective" — per Ms. Moonan — collection of staggering spaces designed in the post-dilettante period includes Billy Baldwin's sumptuous library at 653 Fifth Avenue for the CBS executive William S. Paley; Deborah Berke's marble-clad bathroom for a client at the pencil-thin 265 Park Avenue; and Gloria Vanderbilt's quilt-covered bedroom on the Upper East Side.
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Dylan who played the folkie and the poet and the prophet and the rocker and the actor and the dilettante, Dylan whose whole career was based on dodging audience expectations, Dylan who invented reinvention a decade before Bowie got the credit — listen only to his '62-'69 albums and you'll still hear at least four or five distinct performance personas, each with its own band sound and corresponding constructed vocal style.
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An exhaustive history of the Golden Lovers was written in the aftermath of New Beginning by Emily Pratt and it's worth reading in full, but the very general gist is that these two men met in the quasi-comedy/high weirdness of Japan's DDT promotion, formed a remarkable tag team, and then went their separate ways, Ibushi to a sort of traveling free agent pro wrestling dilettante, Omega to headlining NJPW shows.
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