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Pere Ubu: Datapanik In Year Zero (Radar)

Robot A. Hull, Creem, November 1978

THE DADA RAMPAGE of Breton and other jujube surrealists culminated in the craziness expressed in Alfred Jarry's Pere Ubu, prompting a whole generation of teens to grow goatees, go underground, and carry toy submachineguns.

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