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Word: puns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...pun hints at a serious truth: the counterrevolution sweeping the Communist world has made possible what Perez calls the "de-ideologization' ' of politics in the Third World. That means Perez, who had to cope with bloody riots sparked by price increases in February, is at least spared having to worry about some Third World minion of the Kremlin accusing him of socialist heresy. The real perestroika makes Perez's version look tame -- and more promising -- by comparison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America: Abroad Pereztroika | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...George Bush had an advantage in the election because he was speaking English and everyone else was speaking Greek, no pun intended," said Pittman, a Democrat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Producer Says Television Is Key Modern Medium | 10/18/1989 | See Source »

...141st time, a crowd of foam-padded and balloon-busted Harvard men are attempting to prance and pun their way into your heart--if you can spare the $15-$17.50 ticket price. Men making fools out of themselves in this burlesque show carry on a Harvard tradition as outmoded as final clubs and Radcliffe college. But these vestiges of the past are still worth visiting at least once during your time here--to understand how far the rest of the school has evolved...

Author: By Laurie M. Grossman, | Title: Hasty Pudding Theatricals: Puttin' on the Blitz | 2/22/1989 | See Source »

...Silver, it means approximately, "Do your work, and God will help you." Director Gregory Mosher, who has staged twelve of Mamet's plays and is one of his closest friends, suggests instead that the phrase "has to do with turning fresh earth -- and of course there is a sexual pun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Madonna Comes to Broadway | 5/16/1988 | See Source »

Mallon not only learned about writing with this project; he learned about being read. "I am very distrustful of authorial intention," he says, adding that one reviewer of Arts and Sciences wrote that he probably meant the protagonist's name to be a pun on the word art in the title. "But I named him for my father," he says...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Mallon on His Novel | 3/12/1988 | See Source »

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