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...meltdown that will lead to Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation and possible martial law. In Empire of Debt: The Rise of an Epic Financial Crisis, which briefly hit business best-seller lists in 2005 and will feature next year in a documentary film by the makers of acclaimed crossword-puzzle geekfest Wordplay, financial-newsletter authors William Bonner and Addison Wiggin draw parallels between the early 21st century U.S. and the decline of Rome and imperial Spain. There are more such jeremiads on sale. I just don't want to use up all my space listing them...
...were at our best at the Cornell men’s hockey game a few weeks back. While Big Red fans were attempting to come up with some convoluted wordplay about our mothers, we cut right to the chase, and our chants of “You are dumb!” were the highlight of the night...
...pieces were amusing, and a few of them were hilarious. Some turned out to be tightly cohesive jokes about wordplay, and others were built around an innovative conceit...
Beck did get something right: The Pudding is vulgar, crass, outlandish, pun-filled, and wrought with sexual innuendo to the point where one more reference to fellatio is like beating a dead horse. No pun intended. It’s a lot like Shakespeare: boys in drag, rapid wordplay, sex everywhere. And people love it; they come back year after year to sit in their seats and be offended, to enjoy the comic material that would be edited from primetime and bleeped out on basic cable. Even matinees (which boast a median age of around 63) contain audiences filled with...
...immense knowledge of history, culture and art not to answer questions about 19th- and 20th-century American culture, but to raise them. Not only does he address existing puzzles—he creates enigmas out of events that seem commonplace. Only Trachtenberg’s obvious delight in wordplay and vivid language rescue what could have easily become an impenetrable maze of historical references and theories.Again and again, Trachtenberg returns to analyzing how people perceive one another and their world. Trachtenberg is at his best when drawing the reader’s attention to the significance of some otherwise-overlooked...