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The duo's findings are published in "Nabokov as Lepidopterist: An Informed Appraisal," in the current issue of Nabokov Studies . Of the seven generic names established by Nabokov, five were deemed still valid, and the two mistakes could be attributed to his not having had enough samples.
Coke and Pepsi, Crest and Colgate, Bush and Gore--the more lackluster and indistinguishable the products, the more each category tends to generate a dominant duo vying to appeal to consumers in what is an essentially trivial decision.
The four third-grade protagonists--Stan, Kyle the Jew, fat Cartman, and mush-mouthed sacrificial lamb Kenny--sing a Rodgers and Hammerstein-style ode to their "peaceful, redneck, podunk" wintry mountain town (where denizens step over the homeless on their way to church services), and then bluff their way into an R-rated Canadian cartoon called Asses of Fire . That picture stars a crudely drawn, Beavis and Butt-head-type duo called Terrance and Phillip, who entertain each other by spewing four-letter words and passing gas in each other's faces.
' On the other hand, is rite the same as ritual ? How about deprecate and depreciate , or cave and cavern ? In fact, a large overlap links each twosome, or duo (or duad ). English, which abhors a vacuum even more than Nature does, produced a plenum here.
The surfeit of mildly interesting plots surrounding each duo results in a film that is "the cinematic answer to one of those parties where you pig out on canapés" (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker ). The highlight of the film: a wonderful performance by Angelina Jolie (Jon Voight's daughter) as a tough club kid who falls in love with a blue-haired Ryan Phillippe.
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