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Monday, July 12, 2010

Ubiquitous tautology

"In one of the more unforgettable moments [Could there be anything less unforgettable?], a … fresh language for the 21st-century dress popped up [Oh, those eloquent dresses!] and defined what being a woman is or can be: an android, a sex kitten, a dynamo, a robot, a flower of pleasure, an angel in the morning, a warrior, a nun, a Lolita, a Bond girl, a multi-ethnic poppy, a surrealist Puritan Mexican-American, a gay-retro variant of a French coquette.” As if this weren’t close enough to a linguistic atlas, the list (NYT 3/14/10) ends with “a butched-up Emma Peel,” which is – for anybody who remembers The Avengers – sort of a tautology - but still nothing compared to the “need to work out a common consensus” (NYT 5/9/10).
Saying the same thing twice is not exactly sparkling, but how about saying the same twelve times on the back of a roughly 5x8 Annie's Grahams box?
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