The candidate likes to spend his free time reading Tolstoy, and not watching Toy Story, as previously reported.
Brazilian news magazine “Veja.”
If you close your eyes, you can’t tell them apart.
“Crime and Punishment” is a novel by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Crime is a social ill for which punishment is meted out unless you can afford a good lawyer. The Thursday edition of TV Guide conflated “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” now in its 19th season, with “Crime and Punishment,” which many high school seniors do not finish by the time they are 19, relying instead of SparkNotes. We regret our error.
Nabokov: “Hop in, little girl. Let’s go for a drive.”
“Lolita” is a 1955 novel by Vladimir Nabokov about a middle-aged professor’s romantic involvement with a young girl. In the August 3rd issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education, it was correctly reported that “Lolita” is today taught by middle-age professors who are romantically involved with their young female students. The Chronicle apologizes for its candor.
Gogol: *sniff* Do I smell Jiffy-Pop?
In a profile in last month’s Full Cry magazine it was incorrectly reported that Furman Bennett, independent candidate for County Assessor, “likes to gargle Russian novelists.” Mr. Bennett’s campaign chairman Lyle Benson, Jr. informs us that Mr. Bennett likes Gogol, a Russian novelist. Full Cry apologizes to Mr. Gogol for confusing him with a politician.
Turgenev: 2017-18 +/- of -1.
Ivan Turgenev was a novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright and translator. Ivan Barbashev is a forward with the Vegas Golden Knights hockey team with a career shooting percentage of 18.5%. In the August edition of The New York Review of Books Turgenev’s career plus/minus average of -1 was transposed with Barbashev’s figure of 4, following an NHL pre-season exhibition between the St. Louis Blues and the 19th Century Russian Novelist All-Stars. Readers are referred to The Sporting News for the final summer league statistics.
Pushkin: “I could use some more of those foam packing peanuts.”
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic Era. A “push-pin” is a short nail or pin with a long, cylindrical head made of plastic, available at Staples, an American multinational office supply retailing corporation. A typographical error in last weekend’s MetroWest Bargain Hunter listed a pack of 100 Pushkins for $2.29. There is only one Pushkin, and he does not go on sale until Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving.
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