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Many are so uncelebrated or of such transitory glory that they have been provided with identifying squibs: (cookbook writer) Maida Heatter's favorite is chocolate; (CEO, Bear Stearns) Alan Ace Greenberg's, omphaloskepsis (probably after eating kreplach and a good reason for finding another broker); (singer) Gloria Estefan's, houndation, weirdness, plethora, the first of which is not in dictionaries; and, finally, (entertainer, magician) Penn Gillette's dysphonic ruckus.
Finally, if you're a little rusty on what exactly they're fighting about in Kosovo, here are squibs on 1) (hint: They're not the same); 2) the difference between ; 3) why fighting in Kosovo could spark ; and 4) . Or click for a profile of Slobodan Milosevic.
In return, they provide the blurbs quoted in advance newspaper ads ("An ending that will knock your socks off"-- Tucson Gazette ). The junketeers deliver these squibs, which seldom appear in actual reviews, to the studio publicists.
In the last half-hour, the farcical pulse gets lost amid the crosses and double-crosses and triple-crosses and erupting blood squibs and dud psychology.
Those VERBATIM readers who delight in Sic! Sic! Sic! squibs will find fulfillment in the pages of this book, which chronicles examples of unfortunate syntax and typographical errors—usually called literals in British English—gleaned from the pages of various (British) periodicals.