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  • n  a humorous play on words

  • His brand of lowbrow comedieswhich mix dizzying verbal wordplay, banana-peel pratfalls and kung fu (think the Marx Brothers with jump kicks)are wildly popular with Asian .
  • But in the implicit tests of nonconscious emotion the wordplay researchers found that the students who were preoccupied with death tended to generate significantly more .
  • His wordplay can be thrilling ("My picture should be in the dictionary next to the definition of definition"), and no other rapper finds as much joy in rhyming; "in the way .
Quotes

  • Joaquin Phoenix in International Herald Tribune
    I love the storytelling aspects of hip-hop, but I love the wordplay, as well,Phoenix said. "I just think the rhyming is fantastic, and I love, like, the raw emotion of it."
  • Will Shortz in Reuters
    In an editor's note, Times' puzzle editor Will Shortz wrote: "The clues in this puzzle are a little more playful and involve more wordplay than in a typical crossword. You have been warned."
  • Alan Rich in AFP
    Truth to tell, it did not start well, with a movie screen full of sophomoric wordplay with funny Italian words -- eg, 'impetigo' -- familiar from the Woody of old,wrote Alan Rich in Variety.

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