Robert Feild, of Harvard, praised him for undermining the outworn distinction between high art and popular culture.

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Plus, in high school he received the Meritorious Distinction for Senior Thesis: Female Empowerment as a result of Microfinance Institutions in Third-World Nations.

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As Osiride, Randall Bills works hard and acquits himself with distinction but little finesse in this high, difficult role.

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Yet these details are not entirely to be trusted, and it would be a little simplistic to assume that they prove the distinction between Banville and Black, High Art and Pulp Fiction.

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T. bataar was slightly smaller than T. rex, which is like drawing a distinction between a city bus and a school bus: the largest known T. bataar stood ten feet high, was up to forty feet long, and had nearly six dozen huge, spiky teeth, with jaws of crushing torque.

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