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 Post subject: This and that
PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 8:32 am 
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Either the same people at the Times write the obits and the corrections, or there's a contest to see who can get the longest sentence into the paper.

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Larry L. King, a journalist, essayist and playwright with a swaggering prose style and a rollicking personal one, who left Texas as a young man but never abandoned it in his work — turning out profiles of politicians, articles on the flaws and foibles of American culture, searching autobiographical essays and, most famously, the book for the Broadway musical “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” — died on Thursday in Washington. He was 83.


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 Post subject: Re: This and that
PostPosted: Sat Dec 22, 2012 9:21 pm 
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The structure would be a little more classically German if the last few phrases were reworked to:
... in Texas", on Thursday in Washington at 83 died.
I mean, if you are going to put the verb at the end, do it right.


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