Here are the best of the many reader suggestions for Matisse/Picasso pairings I've received so far. In case of repeats, I've given credit to the first submission. If you're joining the discussion late, click here to read "Matisse vs. Picasso."--Jacob Weisberg

Posted Thursday, March 4, 1999

Debussy/Ravel

--Mike Billips

Don DeLillo/Thomas Pynchon

--Robert Farwell

Starsky/Hutch

Chuck Lane/Andrew Sullivan

University of Chicago/Brown

Brian Eno/Bryan Ferry

--Jack Shafer

Japanese food/Chinese food

--Michael Waldman

Bruce Lee/Jackie Chan

--Michael Prince

Gustav Klimt/Egon Schiele

Kmart/Target

--Catherine Fisher

Less filling!/Tastes great!

V.S. Naipaul/Salman Rushdie

--Ananth Srikrishnan

Dallas/Austin

NYSE/NASDAQ

Compaq/Dell

--Albert Nurick

Washington Week in Review/The McLaughlin Group

Zone defense/Man-to-man

Ginger ale/Mountain Dew

--Raphael Laufer

Sonny/Cher

--Chris Rodas

Billy Graham/Jimmy Swaggert

--Randy Wagner

Mary Ann/Ginger

White meat/Dark meat

--Matthew O'Brien

Dean Smith/Bobby Knight

Floyd Patterson/Cassius Clay

Lou Gehrig/Babe Ruth

Jack Nicklaus/Arnold Palmer

Bjorn Borg/John McEnroe

Bart Starr/Joe Namath

--Bruce and Karen Stewart

McGwire/Sosa

--Eric Mandel

Roger Clemens/David Wells

Three-pointer/Dunk

Formula/Nascar

--Joel Thompson

Bob Costas/Marv Albert

Hillary Clinton/Gennifer Flowers

--Kevin Donovan

Pat Buchanan/David Duke

--Ben George

Locke/Hobbes

--Jim Mirage

Sartre/Camus

William Carlos Williams/Wallace Stevens

Frank O'Hara/John Ashbery

Coleman Hawkins/Lester Young

John Coltrane/Sonny Rollins

Duke Ellington/Count Basie

Thelonious Monk/Bud Powell

Frank O'Hara/John Ashbery

--Jonathan Mayhew

Nat King Cole/Ray Charles

Dionne Warwick/Aretha Franklin

Paul Simon/Bob Dylan

Bergman/Fellini

Truffaut/Godard

Ford/Peckinpah

Montgomery Clift/Marlon Brando

--Mark Kirby

Katherine Hepburn/Ingrid Bergman

--Richard K. Green

Al Green/Marvin Gaye

Lenny Kravitz/Terence Trent D'Arby

Denzel Washington/Samuel Jackson

Lauryn Hill/Lil' Kim

Brandy/Monica

Diana Ross/Donna Summer

--Dimitry Leger

Bridge/Poker

--Daniel Piette

Creamy/Chunky

--L. Stewart

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Posted Tuesday, March 2, 1999

Steven Spielberg/George Lucas

Alice Walker/Toni Morrison

--Gloria D. Howard

Titian/Tintoretto

Alger Hiss/Whittaker Chambers

Ralph Ellison/Richard Wright

Henry Morgenthau/Harold Ickes

--Michael Ybarra

Keyboard/Mouse

--Bill Barnes

Newton/Einstein

Uncertainty/Chaos

Depression/Angst

Martin/Lewis

William Bennett/Robert Bennett

--Michele Heath

Barthes/Foucault

Modernism/Postmodernism

Nabokov/Roth

Wendy Shalit/Camille Paglia

Coke/Acid

--Michael Hirschorn

Häagen-Dazs/Ben & Jerry's

--Holly Loth

Mercedes/BMW

--Hugh Balsam

Bert/Ernie

Blue/Purple

Kind of Blue/Bitches Brew

Stanford/Berkeley

Columbia/NYU

--Anonymous

NT/Linux

Milan/Florence

MacArthur/Patton

Tango/Samba

Ketchup/Salsa

David Bowie/Iggy Pop

George Michael/Boy George

Marilyn Manson/Charles Manson

Victoria's Secret/Frederick's of Hollywood

Hugh Hefner/Larry Flynt

--Anonymous

Butt-head/Beavis

Joan Sutherland/Maria Callas

NBC/Fox

Blond hair/Red hair

The Union/The Confederacy

Kurt/Courtney

Art Nouveau/Art Deco

--Carmen Sandiego

Baryshnikov/Nureyev

--Julia Russell

Apple/Orange

--Judith Spencer

CNN/MSNBC

Spock/Kirk

Microsoft trial/Clinton trial

Sondheim/Lloyd Webber

Senate/House

Scully/Mulder

Larry King/Don Imus

--Dafna G.

Revolver/Let It Be

The White Album, Disc 1/The White Album, Disc 2

Julian Lennon/Sean Lennon

Johnny Rotten/Sid Vicious

--James Poniewozik

Tennis/Squash

Bill Murray/John Belushi

David/Goliath

Betty Friedan/Gloria Steinem

GIs/Baby boomers

--Michael White

Vanilla/Chocolate

Ketchup/Mustard

Keaton/Chaplin

Saving Private Ryan/The Thin Red Line

Boxers/Briefs

--Carl McMann

Paper/Plastic

Shoes/Sandals

--Juris Odins

Jazz/Blues

--Kevin Shook

'98 Yankees/'86 Mets

--Rich Agler

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Posted Monday, March 1, 1999

Jimmy Stewart/Humphrey Bogart

Murphy Brown/Ally McBeal

--Tom Scarlett

Sid/Hitch

--Gerry Marzorati

Friends/Seinfeld

Henry Fonda/Peter Fonda

Figure skating/Ice hockey

Bill Cosby/Richard Pryor

Frank Capra/Orson Welles

--Jason Graff

Voltaire/Rousseau

Mandela/Biko

--Paul Patin

Peter Jennings/Dan Rather

Wordsworth/Coleridge

--Morris M. Jackson

Pete Sampras/Andre Agassi

--Seth Stevenson

Soccer/Rugby

--Mike Mays

Seinfeld/Kramer

--Tom Currah

MoMA/The Guggenheim

--Eric Siegel

Coppola/Scorsese

-- Steve Crawford

Posh Spice/Scary Spice

Chicago Hope/ER

Harvard/Yale

--Jacob Stohler

Kerouac/Burroughs

--Jason McDaniel

Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid

Winona Ryder/Uma Thurman

--Randy Wagner

Lisa/Bart

Cézanne/Gaugin

Manet/Monet

Abel/Cain

Lenin/Stalin

Fidel/Che

Martin Luther King Jr./Malcolm X

--Shany Mor

John D. Rockefeller/J.P. Morgan

--Abiola Lapite

Nancy Kerrigan/Tonya Harding

--Kristin Abkemeier

Canada/United States

Gore Vidal/Quentin Crisp

The '50s/The '60s

--Alexi Helligar

Michael Jordan/Dennis Rodman

--Dominic Lane

Arthur Miller/Tennessee Williams

Paul Begala/James Carville

Isaac Asimov/Philip K. Dick

--Zachary Cook

Prozac/Viagra

--J. Bretson

Michael Jackson/The Artist Formerly Known as Prince

--Pam Ferguson

McCartney/Lennon

Garfunkel/Simon

--Andrew Solovay