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Language, like the world it represents, can never be static. Even today the pun survives fitfully in tabloid headlines: JUDGES WEIGH FAN DANCER'S ACT, FIND IT WANTON. It survives in the humor of S.J. Perelman, the only post-Joycean writer capable of fluent bilingual flippancy: "lox vobiscum," "the Saucier's Apprentice," and the neo-Joycean "Anna Trivia Pluralized." The pun makes its happiest regular appearance in the work of Novelist Peter De Vries, who writes stories about compulsive punners. "I can't stop," he claims. "I even dream verbal puns. Like the one in which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Punning: The Candidate at Word and Ploy | 2/28/1972 | See Source »

...Mitchell party were real stars. Unlike their counterparts at the Oscar awards, they were making no effort to hide their boredom and hostilities. To watch the ceremonies, they divided into groups before three TV sets labeled, respectively, Orthodox, Conservative and Reform. Drinks were bountifully provided, along with lox and cream cheese and mini-eggrolls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mocking the Mockery | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...DANJU GIG by Carolyn Weston. 195 pages. Random House. $4.95. A smart-mouthed Jewish agent and a black movie star play at espionage in a small West African dictatorship. Sample prose: "Again he belched. Lox...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: One Week: The Literary Overflow | 10/24/1969 | See Source »

...impressive "budda-deh-buddedeh" in my rear axle. There is a scintillating "chatcheteh-chatch-eteh" coming from a rear shock absorber, a soothing "toketah, toketah" from my radio antennae and a "tssshhhzbbbd" from my radio. And I may well have the only door that closes with a "puh-lox-ette-kuh." I have been assured by the service manager that, "dats duh way der bill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1969 | 10/17/1969 | See Source »

...work now in the works is a lox-pink ice bag, 18 ft. in diameter, for the U.S. Pavilion at the World's Fair at Osaka next year. A motor inside will cause the ice bag to tilt, inflate, undulate and deflate on a continuous cycle. As an object, it is funny, anthropomorphic and intellectual all at once. It qualifies as kinetic or soft or Pop sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Venerability of Pop | 10/10/1969 | See Source »

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