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...bound together—as was the era—by the young, blonde, tan, wealthy children of the Zeitgeist.A fifth storyline, about a literal nightclub vampire, was excised from the film after shooting had already wrapped, an apt illustration of what makes the finished film so (forgive the pun) toothless. Ellis’s novels and the films they spawned have always stood on their psychopathology. Bateman murders his colleagues not just because he’s jealous of them, but because he actually is a homicidal maniac; the joke is that nobody notices. He?...
...concentrator Ben M. Sack ’07, now director of the consulting firm Boylston Technology Group, was thinking about how to pitch a strange-sounding brand of French wool, what came to mind immediately was his senior thesis on Picasso and semantics, which helped him craft a visual pun for the brand...
...with stoned yet attractive partygoers. Ah, there’s Britney, complete with strategically tousled hair and her post-comeback “It’s Britney, bitch” stare. Fast forward through a lot of lacy lingerie and variations on aforementioned stare and Britney delivers a pun almost worthy of the “gracias” / “grassy ass” wisecracks we sported during recess in 5th grade: “If You Seek Amy” / “F-U-C-K Me.” Ladies and gentlemen, this...
...Authorities have also ratcheted up their vigilance online. Puns have long been a popular way for China's 270 million netizens to expressing frustration with the level of censorship they suffer. That subversive tactic, which had been quietly tolerated in the past, was recently cracked down on when a pun went viral that involved a mythical animal called a "grass mud horse" - a thinly masked homonym for a very rude Chinese phrase involving sex acts and a close relative. By the time one enterprising netizen had concocted a video clip purporting to show grass mud horses cavorting in an equally...
...Longtime naked hiker Grottenpösch says the possibility of a new penal code (no pun intended) makes his flesh crawl. "Some people may see nudity as indecent, but what harm does it do to public security and order?" he asks, adding that he has already convened about a dozen other nude-hiking aficionados to devise legal action. If the law passes, "we will sue Appenzell," he says, vowing to take the case all the way to the Federal Court - Switzerland's highest judicial authority...