Word: puns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound, 1914, and hieratic it is; the face, with its wedge of a nose, embrasure-like eyes and triangular goatee, is as powerful as a royal Assyrian portrait, possessed of an awful gravity that the outrageous phallic pun of the poet's hair fails to reduce...
Every now and then a franchise attempts a punning name. A hockey team in Georgia was known as the Macon Whoopees, and the Los Angeles Rams cheerleaders were once called the Embraceable Ewes. The name Buffalo Bills is a pun of sorts. So was the name of the late American Basketball Association team, the St. Louis Spirits. (Get it? The Spirit of St. Louis?) Perhaps one day we will have the Norman (Okla.) Conquests or the Greenwich Village Idiots...
...people whose surfaces are rotten enough." Sorry Scheme sold three copies. Earl's girlfriend Poppy McCloud writes best-selling romances like Break Slowly, Dawn and commands $2 million advances. What do these vastly different writers have in common, besides a publisher named Dogwinkle? Well, there is sex, which the pun-loving Peter De Vries, 76, might call the great leveler. There are also the usual convoy of country-club dreadnoughts and assortment of foibles and venal sinning that go into the makings of De Vries' unusual comic novels. Peckham needs Poppy's financial support, and she yearns for his intellectual...
...company's Magic Eye Theater, a 3-D film called Magic Journeys, was seen by 19 million people in less than four years. Asked how long EO will run, a Disney spokesman replies, "EOns." Walt Disney and George Eastman might shudder at the expense (not to mention that atrocious pun), but they would appreciate their successors' canny blending of commerce and entertainment...
...dapper, pun-prone host of Public Broadcasting Service's Wall $treet Week, Louis Rukeyser instructs his 10 million viewers on how to invest their money. Now the Internal Revenue Service is suggesting that the teacher may need some lessons of his own. The agency is demanding more than $400,000 in back taxes and penalties from Rukeyser and his wife Alexandra...