Word: pseudonyms
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When he felt that one of the lines for Art Carney, who plays opposite him, was out of character and in bad taste, he kept dinning away at Simon, finally, while the show was on the road, wrote a letter (signed with a pseudonym) to get it taken...
...nothing in common but an unrequited appetite for human contact. "Platzo" is the fantasy name that Arthur Turbitzky, a nice, repressed Jewish boy, bestows on himself, explaining to the reader "Platz means place in Jewish and German. It also means to burst." "The Mexican Pony Rider" is also a pseudonym; behind it, an unnamed juvenile delinquent prowls Manhattan, fancying himself a blend of pony-express rider ("Nothing bugged them") and Marlon Brando in Viva Zapata! These formless reveries might make source material for an analyst, who is paid to listen...
...Descending a Staircase, described at the time as "an explosion in a shingle factory," was the belly blow of Manhattan's Armory Show. He dabbled in dada in interbellum Paris by drawing a delicate mustache and goatee on a Mona Lisa reproduction. As a surrealist masquerading under the pseudonym of Rrose Selavy (c'est la vie), he exhibited his portrait on a perfume bottle, submitted a urinal titled Fountain to a 1917 salon, where it was hidden behind a screen...
...interested to see Lee Oswald's pseudonym, "Alek James Hidell." Note that "Hidell" can be considered a contraction for "Hide" and "Jekell." It seems to me that we have here some evidence-of a speculative psychodynamic sort-that in the adoption of this pseudonym, Oswald gave (unconscious?) recognition to his own mentally unbalanced identity...
Today is the deadline for the Summer School Poetry Contest. All entries must be submitted in triplicate to the social director's office at Matthews 4. Contestants should use a pseudonym and attach an envelope with their real name inside...