Steve Allen's Private Joke File
Steve Allen's Private Joke File

Author: Steve Allen

Publisher: Crown Archetype

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0307421694

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Why Did Steve Allen Cross the Road? Steve Allen is a legend among comedians and entertainers. He's been playing to audiences on stage, radio, film, and television for more than fifty years, gaining acclaim for his unique wit and energy. Now for the first time, he shares more than a thousand of his favorite one-liners, anecdotes, limericks, quotes, and other generally funny things. The entries are divided into nearly two hundred categories to make it easy for anyone to find the right laugh for any occasion. If you're faced with the prospect of having to "say a few words," Steve Allen's Private Joke File is the perfect place to look for ideas and inspiration on such topics as awards, drinking, baseball, lawyers, dentists, insurance, marriage, the stock market, and dozens of other subjects. A sampling: * My wife and I had words, but I never got to use mine! * If ignorance is bliss, he should die of joy. * "How are the acoustics here?" "Great, I can hardly hear you!" * I learned to rumba very early in life ... I had a tricycle with a loose seat. * Room for rent, by young lady, freshly plastered. Steve Allen has also included a number of his favorite essays and monologues. Steve Allen's Private Joke File is great to flip through for fun or for function, and for those of us looking for a good laugh -- to give one or to have one -- it's indispensable.

Hi-ho, Steverino!
Hi-ho, Steverino!

Author: Steve Allen

Publisher:

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13:

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This autobiography of Allen's 50 full years of television and radio work is packed with humorous anecdotes about himself and other top stars. Allen recalls live-television goofs, mistakes, and mix-ups and pays tribute to the many stars he worked with through the years.

Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality
Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion and Morality

Author: Steve Allen

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2009-12-30

Total Pages: 462

ISBN-13: 1615923330

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Includes both volumes Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality and More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, And Morality shrinked-wrapped in a boxed-set.

Secretly Inside
Secretly Inside

Author: Hans Warren

Publisher: Terrace Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 584

ISBN-13: 9780299209803

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In the Dutch countryside the war seems far away. For most people, at least. But not for Ed, a Jew in Nazi-occupied Holland trying to find some safe sanctuary. Compelled to go into hiding in the rural province of Zeeland, he is taken in by a seemingly benevolent family of farmers. But, as Ed comes to realize, the Van 't Westeindes are not what they seem. Camiel, the son of the house, is still in mourning for his best friend, a German soldier who committed suicide the year before. And Camiel's fiery, unstable sister Mariete begins to nurse a growing unrequited passion for their young guest, just as Ed realizes his own attraction to Camiel. As time goes by, Ed is drawn into the domestic intrigues around him, and the farmhouse that had begun as his refuge slowly becomes his prison.

Script-Based Semantics
Script-Based Semantics

Author: Salvatore Attardo

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-02-24

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 150151170X

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The book contains essays in honor of Victor Raskin. The contributions are all directly related to some of the major areas of work in which Raskin's scholarship has spanned for decades. The obvious connecting idea is the encyclopedic script-based foundation of lexical meaning, which informs his pioneering work in semantics in the 1970s and 1980s. The first part of the book collects articles directly concerned with script-based semantics, which examine both the theoretical and methodological premises of the idea and its applications. Script-based semantics is the foundation of both Raskin's ground-breaking work in humor research (addressed by the articles in part 2) and in Ontological semantics (addressed in part 3), the most recent development of script-based semantics. The fourth part is dedicated to a less-known, but equally important, strand of Raskin's research, the applications of linguistics to other fields, including writing, lexicography, and professional applications (e,g., tourism). Overall, the book provides and up-to-date, in-depth discussion of an influential strand of the discussion on semantics and its most recent developments and influence on other seemingly unrelated fields, such as Cognitive Linguistics.

American National Biography
American National Biography

Author: John A. Garraty

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-05-12

Total Pages: 848

ISBN-13: 0199771499

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American National Biography is the first new comprehensive biographical dicionary focused on American history to be published in seventy years. Produced under the auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies, the ANB contains over 17,500 profiles on historical figures written by an expert in the field and completed with a bibliography. The scope of the work is enormous--from the earlest recorded European explorations to the very recent past.

Structural Ambiguity in English
Structural Ambiguity in English

Author: Dallin D. Oaks

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2010-05-27

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 1441141375

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Structural Ambiguity in English is a major new scholarly work that provides an innovative and accessible linguistic description of those features of the language that can be exploited to generate structural ambiguities. Most ambiguity scholarship is concerned with disambiguation-the process of making what is ambiguous clear. This book takes the opposite approach as it focuses on describing the features in the English language that may contribute towards the creation of structural ambiguities, which form the core of some of the best word-plays found in advertising, comedy and marketing. Oaks utilizes a systematic and comprehensive inventory approach that identifies individual elements in the language and their distinctive behaviors that can be manipulated in the deliberate creation of structural ambiguities. In doing so he also provides authentic examples to illustrate the concepts he presents. This book will appeal to researchers and academics interested in the structure of the English language, usage, pragmatics, communication, natural language processing, editing, and humor studies as well as those in marketing, advertising, or humor writing.

Musicmakers of Network Radio
Musicmakers of Network Radio

Author: Jim Cox

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 381

ISBN-13: 0786489626

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Before television, radio was the sole source of simultaneous mass entertainment in America. The medium served as launching pad for the careers of countless future stars of stage and screen. Singers and conductors became legends by offering musical entertainment directly to Americans in their homes, vehicles, and places of work and play. This volume presents biographies of 24 renowned performers who spent a significant portion of their careers in front of a radio microphone. Profiles of individuals like Steve Allen, Rosemary Clooney, Bob Crosby, Johnny Desmond, Jo Stafford, and Percy Faith, along with groups such as the Ink Spots and the King's Men, reveal the private lives behind the public personas and bring to life the icons and ambiance of a bygone era.

Vulgarians at the Gate
Vulgarians at the Gate

Author: Steve Allen

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2010-10-05

Total Pages: 419

ISBN-13: 1615927514

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In an effort to raise the standards of popular culture, the late Steve Allen speaks out against trash TV and raunch radio in "Vulgarians at the Gate". The honorary chairman of "The Parents Television Council" describes what the group is doing to raise a chorus of protest and shows what all concerned citizens can do to help.

Encyclopedia of Television
Encyclopedia of Television

Author: Horace Newcomb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-02-03

Total Pages: 2732

ISBN-13: 1135194793

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The Encyclopedia of Television, second edtion is the first major reference work to provide description, history, analysis, and information on more than 1100 subjects related to television in its international context. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit the Encyclo pedia of Television, 2nd edition website.