Word: funning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gilbert's story is as witty and entertaining as any he wrote, using the hierarchies of the Queen's Navy to poke fun at the English caste system...
...makes it seem as if people are screwing onthe dance floor left and right, which is totallyridiculous," said Scott D. Beck '88-'90. "Surethere's some mistletoe, and some people 'hook up,'but it's harmless fun. It's a good time with maybea little sexual activity going on--there's nothingwrong with that...
Gorbachev made fun of Bush's celebrated caution, in fact, telling the joint news conference, "In our position, the most dangerous thing is to exaggerate" the accomplishments of the Malta summit "and that we should always preserve elements of cautiousness--and I use the favorite word by President Bush...
Luckily for Deighton, there is no sign of change in his narrative's other engine of mischief, the mole-ridden, class-clotted English intelligence apparatus. A considerable part of the fun of the author's nearly endless chronicle has always been his seething contempt, and Samson's, for England's upper-class bumblers, and for Oxbridge leftists of the Kim Philby stamp. Readers who have followed Samson from Berlin Game will recall that his very upper-class wife Fiona, also an English intelligence agent, defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less...
NATURE: A dip with the dolphins may be fun, but is it right...