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...much to do with pleasure. Just about everything that could turn you off is catnip to him: aggro, solipsism, tension, repetition, torpor and bad jokes that may have come out of a misanthrope's fortune cookie. Boredom too. Try watching a fuzzy tape of Nauman overstretching a simple phallic pun by very slowly "manipulating" a long fluorescent tube. You don't so much enjoy this show as endure it; you get through it. Then, in the coffee shop, you peruse the catalog and find such hyperbolic drivel as this, by co-curator Kathy Halbreich: "Like the great 17th century metaphysical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEING A NUISANCE | 4/24/1995 | See Source »

Harvard struggled early, got hot in December and January, went ice cold (no pun intended) in February and looked to be back in top form last weekend against St. Lawrence and Clarkson...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Harvard, RPI Geared to Battle Tonight at Bright | 3/10/1995 | See Source »

...there with the innocent lilt of that riddle format, now didn't we? We bet you expected that the answer would be some sort of pun, as we'll admit we are wont to make--some petty witticism, with which you could chuckle your ennuiaway. Instead, though, you were shocked with a hideous hypothetical...

Author: By Elg & Yhy, | Title: from the editors | 3/9/1995 | See Source »

...Puns. The show has lots of them. All the characters' names are puns. Much of the dialogue is punny. Often, even the title is a pun. (In 1989, the show was called Whiskey Business. Two years ago, it was Romancing the Throne. This year it's A Tsar is Born. You get the idea.) Every show contains a pun on the words "Hasty Pudding," as well as a "punrun"--a run of puns on one theme...

Author: By Stephen E. Frank, | Title: Cross-Dressing With Boris | 2/22/1995 | See Source »

Joining me as Tri-Sports Editors are Eric Brown and Matt Howitt. If you like bad pun-itive headlines, San Francisco native Eric is your man. He was mighty happy during the Stupor Bowl, and he would find it cool, dude, if the Sharks or baseball Giants do well...

Author: By David S. Griffel, | Title: Meet Your Sports Executives! | 2/1/1995 | See Source »

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