Word: punned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Puerto Rican peony-pluckers in a state of purposeful peonage." With nary a blush he writes of returning home to the "fusty forgiveness of my fanlighted foyer." His frequent dissections of sex and theology revolve around a central question: How many matrons can dance on the head of a pun? "More power to the peephole!" the Rev. Marshfield exults after describing a session of spying on his curate and his mistress of the moment...
...brothers are still funny forty years later. You can't apply that criterion to Monty Python yet. But my roommates have been answering my questions about the weird things they say lately with quotes like "Well, that's where my claim falls to the ground" or "It's a pun" and "It's people like you what cause unrest." This could go too far. I don't know how I could take a lunch made out of spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, chicken tetrazzini and spam...
...Four, but the rather innocuous odor of a man who is steeped to the ankles in vanilla extract. This may be a fine touch for the Sherlockian satirist--and there have been plenty of them--but it hardly befits the genius of Watson. Because of preposterous insertions, like this pun: "You've a real gift for telling a tale, Watson, and a flair for titles, too, I'll be bound," or the following canard: "On that previous occasion Holmes wished to employ Toby in order to trace an orangutan through the sewers of Marseille," one comes to rue moribund Watson...
...expressing their sense of their past roles and their future artistic identity. Wendy Calman's "Flying Franklin Lightning Show" and "Ben and Me" are whimsical constructions, combining photography with puppet theater, that gently parody our national obsession with our Founding Fathers while Eileen Cowin creates both a visual pun and a commentary on women and society by juxtaposing an ad for peaches with a picture of a corseted woman...
...Pun-Loving. Miller, 50, brings unique qualifications to his Nixon defense role. A Republican who campaigned for Robert Kennedy in his 1968 presidential primary drive, Miller had served as chief of the Justice Department's Criminal Division when Kennedy was Attorney General. There he became acquainted with many members of the present Jaworski staff, including James Neal, who will head the prosecution team in the conspiracy trial. A frequent guest at Kennedy's Hickory Hill estate, the gregarious, pun-loving Miller retained his Republican credentials by running, unsuccessfully, for Lieutenant Governor of Maryland in 1970. He was among...