Word: puns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have to get our act together and prove to ourselves that we can win," goalie Seidler, discontented with the tie-syndrome that has (pardon the pun) the squad in knots, said yesterday...
...Frank Trippett vanish if he makes one more pun on the word...
...encounter starts benignly as Alice reads a newspaper to her six-legged acquaintance. But the double-entendres soon begin. Whenever Alice encounters a creature, the reader can hear a pun drop. The wasp, for example, mistakes Alice for a bee because she has a comb. Typically, wordploy is incessant, and terror lurks just beneath the surface. At one point the wasp takes off his wig and stretches out one claw toward Alice "as if he wished to do the same for her." "The cutting off of hair," writes Gardner, "like decapitation and teeth extraction, is a familiar Freudian symbol...
...event, no pun intended, everyone expects every record to be broken this weekend...
...York Times's chief theater critic for the past decade, Clive Barnes is the night mayor of Broadway, a lively, literate reviewer who can make or break a new show with a stroke of the pun. Barnes is also the paper's leading dance critic, and in a typical week the indefatigable aesthete shuttles from theater to theater covering both arts...