The show has Nye's enthusiastic character reference for Stern, as well as the German-language diary of 8-year-old Lore Moser, whose mother was a cousin of Stern's.

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Mr. HOLLOWAY: It's a lovely chestnut, but they actually have - it's a weird reference in the sense that the one character in the entire movie who shouldn't be listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED is the guy that's listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED who is the married - the slutty married neighbor that Laura Linney is fooling around with.

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An 18k white gold skeleton frame is designed as a complex set of gears, in reference to the 1936 film in which the Chaplin character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world.

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"What's fantastic about my character is that I'm married to a Latina, and there is zero reference to the fact that we are Mexican-Americans, " he says.

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One drawback was that in the teach-me mode, we didn't see all of the examples of compound kanji words that the reference mode gave us. (A kanji can have different readings and, depending on the character or characters it is combined with, different meanings.) App creator Rory Prior says he is considering adding a vocabulary-training feature to the teach-me mode to address that.

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