It only ever allows for isolated one-liners; no one gets to build up a routine's worth of puns, which is a shame because sometimes half the pun fun (as with Milton Jones, say) is the dizzying sensation of one piling on top of another until your brain can't keep up.
Inevitably, though, there was a backlash, prompted in part by Anne Stevenson's 1989 biography, "Bitter Fame," and still later by "The Silent Woman" (1994), in which Janet Malcolm turned her formidable powers of literary detection on the Plath case and revealed more complexity than the iconographers ever allowed for.
He pointed out that new technology makes Internet distribution of such material easier than ever, allowing for phenomenal expansion of this kind of violence and abuse against unless action is taken to stop its spread.
Mr. Lo, echoing a refrain heard among many protesting on the streets, said he doubted China would ever allow universal suffrage for the city.
Although there has been speculation about whether iPhone and iPad maker Apple would ever allow carrier billing for its App Store, the company has yet to even make so much as an announcement or even offhanded reference about where it stands on the subject, even if we have heard behind the scenes that there is indeed something in the works, slow as it may be to reach the light of day.
Not a week of my life goes by without me receiving a message from either a gay Muslim seeking reconciliation between faith, heart, and body, or a gay non-Muslim who is considering converting to Islam, but wonders whether Islam can ever allow a place for him or her.
"As a novelist I would never ever" allow videos to substitute for prose, said Walter Mosley, the author of "Devil in a Blue Dress" and other novels.
I'm shocked and alarmed that a great nation like America would ever allow someone to run for high office.
Karl Jaspers, who was forced from his academic post by the Nazis, said: "No state intolerant of any restriction on its power for fear of the consequences of a pure search for truth, will ever allow a genuine university to exist".
