Word: puns
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...pun also rises. Too much maligned as the lowest form of humor, it can soar for a brief moment. And in good hands, words can be made to jump, molt, wiggle, shrink, flash, collide, fight, strut, and turn themselves inside out or upside down. They do in this volume of 57 light poems and five airy essays by Felicia Lamport. She briskly suggests that By Love Possessed might well have been written "by Henry James, gulled, cozened." She wonders if spacemen are headed for the "lunar bin." She worries about that poor fellow "who felt his old Krafft ebbing...
...57th Street, Anka runs a musical empire that includes Paul Anka Productions, the Spanka Music Corp. and the Flanka Music Corp. A rug on the reception room floor has an immense orange anchor woven into its grey background, symbolizing the most improbable theme song in the history of Tin Pun Alley: Anchor's Aweigh, with which Anka opens and closes his performances...
...heads up what may be called--to choke a little pun at something--a "fullbackfield." Behind Bassett is fullback Bill Grana, flanked by Chuck Reed and Taylor, who perform more like fullbacks than halfbacks. Grana, Taylor, and Reed--a converted fullback--are all powerful...
...front and in back-different time zones." Turning Soviet-American relations into a latter-day bestiary, he noted that "our dogs are affectionate and can fetch newspapers. Russian dogs don't show affection, but they are all engineers." Getting around to women, he reached for a rare pun, said: "Women are getting more and more materialistic, always looking for security. They are saying, 'This is the way the world ends, not with a whim but a banker...
...tendency to give too much. Instead of wanting one more verse out of every song, the audience is satisfied that it has had just enough. And this means that they've been given one too many. Similarly, Segal is having such obvious fun with language that he often does pun indiscriminately, and Raposo's music at times becomes too complementary to the lyrics, like chocolate syrup poured over chocolate ice cream...