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...fellow who goes to a computer dating service seeking a partner who is short, gregarious, formally attired and fond of water sports. "We are led by the joke so far along one meaning surface," says Paulos. "Then comes the punch line. . . the service provides the man with a penguin. We are suddenly jumped across an ambiguity in semantics, from one surface of meaning to another, in a way that can be represented by a mathematical catastrophe...
...eyed at each other, and exclaim, "Brilliant! Just brilliant!" 3) They were drinking champagne throughout the performance, and its smell, too, began to get to me after a while. 4) The theater was too hot for me. 5) I was the "odd man out" in a room which contained penguin clones and one self-proclaimed "critic" in a tan polyester suit. 6) Shortly after the second joking reference was made to McDonald's "fallen arches," I realized that I had already logged more time in the theater that evening than I had spent on my senior thesis all semester...
...Elizabeth David Cookery Book Set (Penguin; $13.95). Boxed edition includes French Country Cooking, French Provincial Cooking, Summer Cooking, Italian Food and Mediterranean Food. Elizabeth David is authentic, practical, nononsense, inventive-the most important of the contemporary authors...
Brother Ignatius Jones, FMS, is a case in point. Brother Ignatius is your basic old-line Catholic teaching brother, which means he is like a priest because he can't get married and has to wear a black-and-white habit that makes him look like a six-foot penguin, although he doesn't have to say Mass every Sunday and instead gets to say things like "Jesus Christ" without having to wrap a sermon around them. Brother Ignatius taught calculus in my high school in New York, and he taught it really well, because everyone learned it really well...
...role as Washington Post managing editor Ben Bradlee in All the President's Men pulled the Best Supporting Actor prize from under the long nose of heart-strings favorite Burgess Meredith (who, we must conclude, kissed away all his chances of redeeming respectability when he played the Penguin in television's "Batman" series...