Word: punning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theatrics were nearly as entertaining as Sterling P. A. Darling's '01 grinning face. Poor Fentrice P. Driskell '01 kept having to speak after Drefyus' impassioned, pun-filled, often nonsensical monologues. But one senses that Dreyfus might be hiding something. Something big. Something monstrous...
...Where Eliot's vastness is oppressive, Mather's seems refreshing. The hall's horizontal expansiveness is divided into different sections, allowing a diner to digest (no pun intended) the immense space of the dining hall in manageable increments. As in Quincy, there is a rectangular central eating area that is flanked on both sides by more intimate commensal spaces. Rather than resolutely delineating spatial boundaries using flanks of columns as Quincy does, Mather separates the private side spaces from the main area with boundaries that are themselves dining spaces (alternating brick walls and tables), seamlessly moving from one dining space...
...Bill's unfaithfulness and George W. quoted mocking a death-row inmate and using a potty mouth, attracted so much media attention before it was even available that Talk had almost guaranteed a successful launch. Editor Tina Brown, the former New Yorker editor, became the talk of the town (pun intended) as she reveled in the glory of having every soul in Washington, New York and Los Angeles giddy with anticipation over the first issue...
...site's catchy pun of a name, originally Geiger's idea, has no doubt drawn many would-be buyers...
Norfleet gives us some clue as to her position as she writes, "My insects became the survivors in a barren world as they played out history." So maybe Norfleet left the last photograph untitled as a segueway into the future, in another clever pun. After all, ugly as they may be, bugs are the oldest things around...