Word: fringework
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...even bother to come to the games," complains one halfback as he watches an old lady buck the line. Explains a widow to friends: "He didn't really die of anything. He was a hypochondriac." Nonsense. He probably died of laughter looking at Price's lunatic -fringework...
...Thousand Billion Poems), written by the late Raymond Queneau, a novelist (Zazie dans le Metro) and co-founder of OuLiPo. The book consists of ten sonnets, ingeniously sliced into 14 strips. By flipping the strips left or right, the reader can construct 1014 intelligible poems. OuLiPo's lunatic fringework also included spoonerisms-deliberate slips of the tongue that gave different leanings to mexicons. Tales were written by the "decision tree" method used in programming computers, presenting the reader with choices. For example, Queneau's A Tale in Your Own Fashion begins, "Do you wish to hear the story...
...many columnists, cartoonists and comedians who provide the lunatic fringework of political commentary, this year's presidential race has not been a laughing matter. "The banality of the candidates destroys humorous comment," complains Roger Angell, humorist and a fiction editor of The New Yorker. To Johnny Carson, Carter v. Ford is "fear of the unknown v. fear of the known." Chirped veteran Mockingbird Mort Sahl: "Choosing between them is like choosing between Seconal and Nembutal...
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