Is This Really The Single Stupidest New York Times Sentence In 3 Decades?
Slate‘s Timothy Noah says this sentence, in a story by Holli Chmela about the Kennedy Center Honors, is “the single stupidest to appear in that newspaper since I began reading it more than three decades ago”:
Mr. Lloyd Webber is often referred to as the Shakespeare of his time with musicals like Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita, Cats, and The Phantom of the Opera.
Noah says it is riddled by an “apples-and-oranges problem” (William Shakespeare being a playwright, Andrew Lloyd Webber a composer) and that Chmela’s “often” declaration proves troublesome for someone, like Noah, who knows his way around Lexis Nexis.
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