TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.
PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Eszterhas is a self-promoter but not a cynic. Sentence 2:  Eszterhas is a self-promoter but not a cynic.

SOLUTION: slate

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: or Texas no that's not a good idea Sentence 2: I wish I could get behind Texas, but there's just so much regulation there.

SOLUTION: telephone

PROBLEM: Sentence 1: Even a maverick like Republican Rep. Sentence 2: Republican Rep is not unorthodox.

SOLUTION:
slate