Word: puns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PAST few years, it looked as if Walt Disney Productions had lost its way Apparently not content with the sort of films that entertained generations, of moviegoers. Disney sought to widen its audience appeal, as if audiences could be larger than those that appreciate Disney's Peter Pun of Dumbo As a result, the studio presented the likes of Trol, an elephant of a different, less charming sort With Tex. Disney happily regains its proper course, offering a movie that, like a black hole but unlike Disney's The Black Hole draws an audience completely into its environment. An examination...
Most likely the habit of applauding is responsible for another phenomenon peculiar to Harvard hissing. This one, Thernstrom reflects gives proceedings "a slight element of spice." While most professors share Thernstrom's benevolent acceptance of good natured hissing. "If one tells a bad pun, one deserves to be hissed," John L. Clive, Kenan Professor of History and Literature asserts many students feel hissing has no place in the lecture hall. "It's very disruptive," says Tracy Rouse. "Students hiss down questions if they don't like them like this morning in Chem...
...long, terrible war is reduced to a lame pun; death, rape and torture become narrative incidents, useful for advancing the plot. Meanwhile, Susan and Fenwick congratulate themselves on how well they are living and writing their novel. "My hat is off to us," Susan says. "Well done, us." She leads cheers for her husband's sensitivity: "That's some intuition you had there on that rampart." Fenwick returns the compliment: "What a teacher you are, Suse. No wonder your students fall in love with...
Luciano's re-enactments are entertaining, but as with too much of everything, the anecdotes and one-liners grow a little weary. Pun and irony are about as complex as the material gets. (He tries to play mind games with himself sometimes. Luciano tells us, until someone reminds him he's playing with a handicap.) Stylistically, you or I could have written the book. Luciano (or Fisher) could have written something other than simple sentences, Noun, verb, object, there's little embellishment. The stories are meant to give pleasure on their own, and generally they do, but like a diet...
Consider Glen Sweeting, a curator in the Air and Space Museum who discovered during the inventory that he has 117 air-sickness bags. "I call them motion-discomfort containers-that sounds better than barf bags," he says. "I haven't found any tasteful-no pun intended-way of exhibiting them, but I still have them. They don't take up much room, and they're a little page in aviation history." Now, to a layman, 117 bags might seem enough. But Sweeting confides that he has just struck a deal to procure 300 more bags from...