Word: limericking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...national limerick contest With entries from Presque Isle to Point Quonset A bit you'd be paid Thus the gauntlet is laid For you to accept from the onset...
Notices to 3,300 colleges and universities, plus a wire-service story, brought the limericks rolling in. "The limerick," explained Rue, "is a non-threatening art form. People will write a limerick when poetry would scare the hell out of them." Members of the Mohegan community got together for one ten-hour limericking marathon to choose 86 finalists for Asimov...
Joyce (James Booth) appears wearing a jacket with shamrocks on it, spouts limerick after limerick and intermittently becomes Lady Bracknell. Tzara (Tim Curry) comes on with a pair of scissors, slices up a Shakespeare sonnet, dumps the lines into a top hat, and extrapolates them as gibberish to show that antiart reigns supreme. In the Wildean substructure of Travesties, Tzara doubles as John Worthing (Earnest in town-Jack in the country). Carr once again plays his friend Algy. Lenin (Harry Towb) has no role in Earnest. Isolatedly aloof, he delivers a stinging diatribe on the duties of an artist...
Pocked Dignity. Legman's revenge was Fake Revolt (1967), an overheated assault on the youth rebellion. "COOL," he concluded, "is the new venereal disease." Despite such desert-prophet eruptions, Legman's scholarship continued. The Limerick is a massive accumulation of the world's most suggestive examples. The Horn Book contains studies in erotic folklore. The Guilt of the Templars is about heresy and sexual perversion in the medieval order of the Knights Templar. Ora genitalism is an elegantly written and anything but smutty study subtitled "Oral Techniques in Genital Excitation." Legman is also an authority on origami...
Rivaling those grim incidents in drama-and gruesome detail-was the continuing saga of Dutch Industrialist Tiede Herrema, 54, who was abducted near Limerick earlier this month by two I.R.A. extremists (TIME, Oct. 20). Since then, Herrema and his kidnapers have been the target of the biggest man hunt in recent Irish history. The Dublin government has steadfastly refused to meet the desperadoes' demand that three convicted Irish terrorists be released from prison. Kidnaper Eddie Gallagher, 27, and his woman companion, reported to be Marian Coyle, 19, sent police a tape-recorded message by Herrema, who said...