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...century. It is stuffed with what its leading character, Berowne, describes as "Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise./Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affectation,/Figures pedantical." And there are hundreds of puns, many be-labored mercilessly. How many of today's theatregoers relish extended puns on long-obsolete terms for a male deer of the second, third, and fourth year? Or puns that require the knowledge that 'suitor' was pronounced 'shooter' and that 'parson,' 'person,' and 'pierce' were homophones? How many of you are familiar with words like kersey, farborough, caudle, inkle, thrasenical, and placket? You do know 'half' and 'capon...
...frightfully inadequate gun laws if they spent a few days watching the "weekend warriors" being brought into Temple's accident dispensary, also known as the Tioga Knife and Gun Club. If you really want to see the lead fly, go to the Poconos on the opening day of deer season; it makes the Tet offensive look like kid stuff...
...recently advertised replicas of the derringer pistol as the dandy little model that killed "two of our country's Presidents, Abraham Lincoln and William McKinley." Another suggested: SUBMACHINE GUN FOR FATHER'S DAY? Yet another offered, for $99.50, a 20-mm. antitank gun, "ideal for long-range shots at deer and bear or at cars and trucks and even a tank if you happen...
...great stretches of the West?notably Montana, Utah, Colorado and Idaho?a standard fixture in most rural homes is the .30-30 in the corner, the universal "thutty-thutty" deer rifle. In the South and Southwest, rare is the farmer who does not keep a rifle in his pickup all the time; Lyndon Johnson used to have a deer rifle clipped under the front seat of his Lincoln while at the ranch. In Alaska, shooting is a way of life?and often of preservation...
...rations and accustom themselves to an eerie and tense life during their temporary duty. There is seldom any enemy to be seen-only small Communist guardposts on the opposite hills. The terrain is rough with stumps, harsh inclines and thick, scrubby bushes. Thousands of white herons, pheasant, deer and bobcats rustle through the undergrowth, sometimes tripping flares or detonating Claymore mines. North Korean loudspeakers blare constant propaganda. When American and North Korean patrols spot each other across the zone, they regularly shout obscenities back and forth in the other's tongue...