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Word: puns (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...writers also "throw a wench in the works, perhaps only so they can use that pun. Jason Cooper provides an energetic performance as Marion Haste, whose Brooklyn accent sometimes becomes Long Island (we thought she was supposed to be Amy Fisher for a while) and sometimes disappears altogether. Haste is one of Lasnight's previous nights, and now she's pregnant. She writes a kiss and-tell "scroll" and tries to convince Diana that Lastnight is scum. (Political Subtext...

Author: By John A. Cloud and Beth L. Pinsker, S | Title: AN EVENING WITH KNIGHTS IN SHINING DRAG | 3/1/1993 | See Source »

...lyrics are gaunt and elusive, the melodies so familiar as to be generic, the arrangements as spare and naked as the sentiments. The album's intertwined themes are keyed in its title: three books from the Old Testament -- the all-time best seller of wrath and reconciliation -- that pun on a man's need to pass stern judgment on women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lone Star Gothic | 6/15/1992 | See Source »

...really offer a cogent explanation for this gender gap. But this sociological imbalance was duly noted by my friends and me, and we played the gum card (pardon the pun) for all it was worth, finding it a relatively effortless method of currying favor with the females...

Author: By Eric R. Columbus, | Title: It's Just Not in the Cards | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

...pun intended, this will be a base election," says a senior Bush adviser. "It will take time and constant repetition, but we will communicate with our base of white and Asian voters. Law and order will eventually win for us because hard-working, honest people are scared and deserve protection. In the end the question will be, Who is better positioned to afford that protection?" In other words, while it is possible to read Bush's saying "We must make sure this never happens again" in various ways, the President's team hopes that by Nov. 3, one meaning alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Ways to Play the Politics of Race | 5/18/1992 | See Source »

...1970s, Man Ray can be found patiently enduring whatever new conceit his master would visit on him. Dusted in flour, tricked up as an elephant, wrapped head to toe in Christmas-tree garlands, he had the comic gravity of Buster Keaton and the acrobatic ambiguities of a four-legged pun. The pictures made Wegman, until then a lesser-known Conceptualist, the kind of artist who gets invited on Carson and Letterman. Four years after Man Ray died in 1982, Wegman acquired Fay Ray, a chocolaty female of the same breed who has been his muse and model ever since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: William Wegman: Bowwowing The Art World | 3/23/1992 | See Source »

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