Word: puns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this dread disease is what I've come to call temperature mania." It's that everwhelming desire, nay passion, to know the exact temperature in both Fahrenhett and Celsius. The worth of everyday comes to be measured in degrees and the mention of rain can throw a damper (pun intended) on the entire week Forget papers, studying for finals, even extracurriculars. What really counts is that it is sunny and warm and the smell of spring...
...apercus) of varying profundity. Eberstadt is an accute observer of the intellectual and social snobbery which prevails among the wealthy young. Mocking the common assumption that to be sophisticated is to be blase, unflappable, Jem says, "It's not glamorous not to be shocked. It's autistic." (The pun on artistic should not be lost on those who have ever tried this route to social chic.) He continues...
...grotesque illustrations of fetuses and slogans depicting Ferraro as a bad Catholic, while their so-called issues-oriented counterparts joined in choruses of "Ronald Reagan, he's no good, send him back to Hollywood" and waved signs imploring their cohorts to "Break Ronald Reagan's Arms" in a tasteless pun on his defense policy...
...while, an air of tension was building. Everyone speculated about the date of the invasion, despite the posters that exhorted CARELESS TALK COSTS LIVES and ended in an execrable pun, BE LIKE DAD. KEEP MUM. An American major general blabbed at a cocktail party, "On my honor, the invasion takes place before June 13." An angry Dwight Eisenhower ordered him reduced in rank to lieutenant colonel and sent back to the U.S. As the invasion was about to begin, Leonard Dawe, a physics teacher who composed crossword puzzles for the London Daily Telegraph, was grilled by Scotland Yard detectives. They...
...second act that things really begin to move--a welcome change from previous shows whose second acts just filled the time till the kickline. And the obligatory pun-fest midway through the act makes everything all right. The writers also deserve kudos for being the first in many years to actually offer a plot rationalization for the kickline itself, even if that rationalization, is too silly to appear in print...