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He falls between two stools.
Hogan's Peter Pan falls between two stools.
Unfortunately, not considered an automatic choice, largely because he falls between two stools positionally.
"Kissing in Manhattan" is wry and believes, wryly, in the Devil (who wears a black designer suit), but Schickler falls between two stools by being self-consciously precious in his details and deadly earnest in his main characterizations.
"A War to Be Won" falls between two stools: it's too long and detailed for many nonmilitary history buffs, but it's not long and detailed enough for those equipped to value it fully.
"Although I drew the strip in Adobe Illustrator," he says in his weblog, "I tried to make it look as if it was drawn conventionally in pen and ink". The result falls between two stools: too cartoony to be atmospheric, yet too fussy to be allusive.
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Fail, and the magazine risks falling between two stools.
As it was, The Eichmann Show fell between two stools.
After the interval, Schumann's Second Symphony fell between two stools.
On its initial release, the film was widely seen to have fallen between two stools.
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