Word: puns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sports bar in Brooklyn that was sued for calling itself "The Brooklyn Dodger" had some beef (no pun intended) when it said the Brooklyn Dodgers no longer exist and that Los Angeles has no claim on the name...
...least 80 people auditioned this fall, he says. First round auditions involve performing two improvisational scenes, one with a fellow auditionee and the other with a member of the group. Scene titles often carry a pun like "Room with a View...
...Shachar's favorite memories took place at the end of his first year, by which time he was 22 years old. He and some friends from his dormitory, Massachusetts Hall, had returned from a night out on the Square. Amidst peals of laughter and pun-peppered conversation (puns are another Ben-Shachar passion), one friend "suddenly stopped. She looked at me very seriously and intensely, and she said to me, 'Tal, you have really immatured.'" Ben-Shachar says his immaturity process is never-ending, though he hopes it is not infinitely regressive...
...scenes that followed, still almost plotless, begged the question, "How far will men in drag go for a pun?" As the characters milked every scene for a line, and every line for five more lines, the show began--no, continued, to drag on dreadfully...
...matches the best that classical contemporaries like Josef Hofmann or Josef Lhevinne had to offer. Her performance of Gershwin's Fascinatin' Rhythm out-Gershwins the great man himself. Confrey's rhythmically tricky 1921 showpiece, Kitten on the Keys, is novelty's signature tune, but his Humorestless, a clever musical pun on both Dvorak's Humoresque and Stephen Foster's Old Folks at Home, is equally typical of his exuberant style. Most ambitious of all was the "Girl Gershwin," Dana Suesse (pronounced Sweese), born in Kansas City, Missouri. Her complex compositions such as Afternoon of a Black Faun and Jazz Concerto...