Word: punster
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...displays the time, the date and, at the push of a button, an up-to-the-second tally of the national debt (programmed to rise by $8,000 a second from a base of $2.35 trillion on Oct. 1, 1987). Says inventor Warren Dennis, a Pasadena, Calif., tinkerer and punster: "Maybe when people see the national debt like this, right in front of them, they'll take an interest in the issue." He promises to donate $1 from each sale of the toy, named Debtman, to a fund to reduce the debt...
...name is Popie Jopie./ I happily travel 'round,/ And always when I arrive/ I spontaneously kiss the ground . . ." So runs last week's fifth- most-popular song on Holland's hit parade. The mild piece of satire contains a punster's slap at Pope John Paul II: popie jopie is a Dutch expression meaning obnoxious. The song is but one indication of the hostility that will greet the Pontiff when he arrives in the Netherlands on Saturday for a four-day visit. More disturbing are the threats of violence. Dutch authorities have mobilized 12,000 police for what will...
Sorrentino, an avid and adept punster, hits his stride when it comes to creating lists. While in "Nawlins," the birthplace of jazz, two "frenchies" recite for Blue some of the great names of Jazz such as Jimbo Verlaine's Rainmakers, Fats Gide with the Baton Rouge Boys, Valery Conga, Booker Cesaire, Cheech Mauriac with the Femmes Fatales and Peanuts Prevert. Or take the roll call of an academic cocktail party where...
...home, Interior Secretary James Watt was the man readers loved to hate. An Aug. 23 cover story on Watt and his policies, "Land Sale of the Century," set 268 mostly hostile pens to work. "Watt an obnoxious character behind that repulsive face on the cover!" said one punster. The rest of the Reagan Administration, including the President, was also attacked, and a majority of those who expressed themselves rejected dense pack, Reaganomics, the New Federalism and support for Central American dictatorships. Said one observer: "The Emperor has no clothes, and the Empress has too many...