Word: puns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Highness told us he eats only one meal a day-at lunchtime." On a recent Pillsbury Mills press junket, Buchwald quipped that the president of the company was greeted in Paris with: "We knew you were coming so we baked a cake." Buchwald, an unblushing user of the multiple pun, described the event: "The well-bread Ritz Hotel . . . was decked out like a wedding cake . . . Pillsbury spared no expense to see that there were flours on every table, whether they kneaded them...
Unfortunately the film fails, like most of its predecessors, to exploit Jerry's unusual gift for "gallows laughter," the rich, traditional Jewish humor of the schlemiel* which he is sacrificing for the easy money in pun and jargon and in the barefaced leer...
...stop this bickering, a cooperative film management plan has been suggested. Directed by a board made up of representatives of all film-showing organizations, it would show all movies and split the profits between the groups. But, to make a bad pun, this seems like putting the cartel before the horse. Any piece of new machinery will fall apart as long as a spirit of cooperation between the components is not present. And if this sprits can come about, such a directorate is not necessary. Unless each group, then, realizes that the excesses of competition will end the opportunity...
Along with economic crisis, government corruption has spread. A fortnight ago, while lecturing army brass on the "meat problem," Perón got a frank assessment of how his prestige has slipped. Looking El Lider square in the eye, one of the assembled colonels made a mordant pun: "The problem, my general, is not only of the flesh but also of the spirit...
...Importance of Being Earnest is a delightful elaboration of a pun by Oscar Wilde. Adapted for the screen by John Davis, and directed by Anthony Asquith, the play loses nothing in the transition. In fact, the camera might have focused directly on the stage production, for it avoids any distant, or off-angle shots, and yet is never static...