Word: butt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about the woman who had quadruplets? I understand that only happens once every 60,000 times." Second woman: "My goodness, when does she get her housework done?" Although the characters are women, the perspective is male; as Legman notes, women never compose dirty jokes but are nearly always the butt of them. The alleged insatiability of the female also runs as an undercurrent through that story-providing a way for the male who is worried about his sexual adequacy to blame it on his partner. This principle comes clear in the joke about a wife whose doctor informs her that...
Because the cast is superior, there is no scenery chewing. There is tobacco chewing, though, when Childie humbles herself before George and crunches a cigar butt in her mouth. There is also the customary hugging of childhood dolls, the eerie apartment, the screeching lovers' quarrels. Mercy and Childie have one love scene of unprecedented explicitness, but even that is not let alone. George catches the lovers en flagrante, throwing open the door in the manner of a Joan Crawford melodrama. In the fervent exploration of once-forbidden terrain, film makers are understandably attracted to themes of homosexuality. Still, treating...
...walk the streets of Lagos, you have to look hard for signs of war. True, between radio and T.V. shows sinister-sounding announcers say, "Challenge anyone doing anything suspicious. Save precious lives. Save Lagos from destruction." But everyone has heard those lines so often that they've become the butt of innumerable jokes...
...glowingly told that their lack of ordinary creativity is made up for and surpassed by the creativity of bearing a child. Here again They confuse individual personal worth with sexual function and voluntary, conscious achievement with involuntary, passive achievement. At the same time, women as sexual objects are the butt of endless jokes; getting pregnant is getting knocked up. One of the most ingenious of Their numberless stereotypes is the belief that women can be salvaged from piety, ambition, bad temper, nervousness, sadness, fear, worry, pedantry, distressing political beliefs, hysteria, pretentiousness or aggression by a good session...
...real sense, the Convention is actually what happens on TV and in the press rooms in the basement of the Fontainebleau Hotel, the butt of even more jokes than the Grand Old Party itself. For a convention is nothing more than groups of delegates making decisions state by state--perhaps after meeting with one or more of the hotel-hopping Presidential aspirants, but more likely way before arriving in Miami Beach. But it is only in the basement of the Fontainebleau that all these decisions are collated and sent out over the wires as comprehensive polls of the delegates. This...