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Industrial design is a stepchild of fine art, and the cross-fertilization of high and pop is an important part of the story of artistic modernism.
The bound and gagged morpheme is in fact the stepchild of the pun and initially is meant to be recombined only as long as it seems clever to do so.
The Brooklyn Museum is a stepchild when it comes to fund-raising and cachet, so they need both the attention and the money.
Today, that army's delinquent stepchild, the Russian army, is fighting a city battle of its own.
And, I might add, hasn't the United States' noninterference in its colonial stepchild Liberia served mainly to prolong that country's agony?