Word: puns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paying tourists a year turn up at Hawes' bushland farm, which he calls a "boomerangery." Those who buy boomerangs get free usage lessons from Master Thrower Hawes. Altogether, Hawes estimates his sales at "somewhere under" $1,000,000 a year. Profits? Hawes replies with a typically atrocious pun: "Let's just say it is a booming business with good returns...
...assumption that they need a certain anonymity as agents, the FBI has permitted no pictures of the pair. However, an FBI spokesman with oafish gallantry and an unintended pun insists, "They're not pigs, by any means...
Specifically, the case before the court involved Lawrence ("Pun") Plamondon, a member of a left-wing organization called the White Panthers, who was accused of bombing a CIA office in Ann Arbor, Mich. The Administration did not contend that any foreign government was involved, and therefore, the court ruled, there was no question that Plamondon was protected by the Fourth Amendment...
...prospects cheered Brodsky. Drinking Coca-Cola in a Vienna cafe, the sturdy, red-haired young poet grinned while cracking a pun in English: "I'm neither a refugee, nor a refu-Jew." He added: "I'm not bitter or angry about what happened to me. I see it as a test of my ability to endure...
...plays hold up? It is difficult to tell from reading them. The right actors, stage business and timing are essential to their success. In Kaufman's offstage humor there is the persistent delight of his famous pun, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian." But there is also an unleavened cruelty. After one of Dorothy Parker's unsuccessful suicide attempts, he remarked, "Dorothy, you've got to be careful. Next time you might hurt yourself...