Word: thesauruses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next up, Bill Boley spoke on general comedy writing. He recommended a thesaurus, insult books, comic strips as helpers, then put a forefinger to his temple and said, "You're going to need a little bit up here." He recommended writing the punch line first and then fitting a story around it. If he is not getting laughs, he has his dummy say, "Hey, don't complain to me. You're doing all the talking." Moreover, "that line has got me out of a corner many times." Directly, Bill Boley demonstrated what he could do with his voice...
...accelerate their pace as well. In Los Angeles, for example, time-conscious consumers can flip through the telephone book to find Speedy Attorney Service, Fast Glass & Screens, Rapid Brake Service, Instant Wedding Chapel and Swift Secretarial Service. The dry-cleaning listings of any phone directory look like a thesaurus entry for the word fast, including the omnipresent 1-Hour Martinizing shops and archrivals with such names as Prompt Cleaners, Presto Cleaners and One-Hour Lusterizing...
...distant innocence and immediate longing. The album's standout is the title track, written by Don, a song of romantic loss and spiritual devastation that has at least a decade's worth of pain packed tight beneath its terse lyrics. Don, who uses the Random House Dictionary and a thesaurus when he writes, expresses grateful surprise when he is complimented on the song but agrees, after a while, "I guess that's life experience I'm writing from now. Born Yesterday took me three to four years to write." "That song," says his brother, "points out that...
...large part because answers have been so hard to come by. During the past 15 years, Mengele has vanished behind a curtain of supposition and speculation, becoming an almost mythic figure whom many have claimed to have seen just about everywhere. The ubiquity is partly explained by the thesaurus of aliases under which he operated. At one point, Mengele called himself "Fausto Ridon," at another "Friederich Elder von Breitenbach." He also passed himself off as "Gregorio Gregori," "Jose Alvarez Aspiazu" and "Pedro Caballero...
...never far from a good dictionary and a good thesaurus, and on occasion the Americans and Israelis would be clustered around one of these books, searching for acceptable synonyms. What was meant by "autonomy," "self-rule," "devolution," "Palestinian people," "authority," "minor modifications," "refugees," "insure, ensure, or guarantee," and so forth? The Egyptians were never involved in these kinds of discussions with...