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...this spoof and those who gripe about the commercial are probably die-hard Times fans, it's still spectacular entertainment to scoff at it. Case in point: "I love to pull everything out of the Sunday paper...and then throw it away." It's all in the delivery (pun unavoidable). Take a look for yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New York Times Weekender Spoof | 2/9/2009 | See Source »

...world do Plutophiles, which you make a pun on in your book title, even exist? What's so special about Pluto? All Plutophiles are based in America. If you go to other countries, they have much less of an attachment to either the existence or preservation of Pluto as a planet. Once you investigate that, you find out that Disney's dog Pluto was sketched the same year the cosmic object was discovered. And Pluto was discovered by an American. So here you have a recipe for Americans falling in love with a planet that really is just a tiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson | 1/21/2009 | See Source »

...mint juleps and influencing a whole generation of fans on what's hip to sip. "Instead of an action hero chugging a beer or pounding down a shot, it's clear that Ian Fleming started this franchise with a real sense of taste - if you'll pardon the pun - for fine living and nice drinks," says Tom Sisson, director of the New York Bartending School. "People notice what Bond orders." (TIME travels to London to learn how to make the perfect Vesper Martini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Shaken and Stirred, James Bond Loves His Booze | 11/12/2008 | See Source »

...many frustrations of living in the Gchat generation—a world in which etiquette and manners are virtually non-existent (pun intended). Where the lack of a “BRB” or “TTYL” can unleash more drama than the latest episode of “The Hills...

Author: By Kriti Lodha, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: OMFG Gchat! | 11/5/2008 | See Source »

...Conservatives try to paint the NEA (pun intended) and its benefactors as the peace, love, and naked calligraphy crowd—ridiculous, immoral, and totally out of touch with normal Americans—ignoring the Endowment’s bipartisan past. It was Theodore Roosevelt (Class of 1880) who established the first arts-oriented federal advisory board, the Council of Fine Arts, and Dwight D. Eisenhower who created a national cultural center for the performing arts, which 13 years and a cultural revolution later opened its doors as the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman | Title: The State of the Art | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

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