Word: humorously
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that I'm a Kennedy." While her posters promote her as Kathleen Townsend, her literature uses all three names. Townsend has been accused of carpetbagging, even though her husband grew up in the district and teaches nearby. When Republicans complain that she is a newcomer, she replies with a humor and bite characteristic of her late father, "The Republicans, of all people, should be pleased that a wife has followed her husband to Maryland...
...counting cases of jock straps in a warehouse, I heard this gem. Next to a story about three nuns and an exercise bike, it is the worst attempt at humor I have ever seen. It goes as follows...
...businessman rather than the future King of England. But the 37-year-old Charles is one of the most famous people in the world, sought after wherever he travels. He's known for the post he gained through birth, but respected for his intelligence and dignity, loved for his humor and British good looks. His office carries little political weight, but he has the power to influence subtly British policy...
...their films shall ye know them. Looking at any national cinema, a viewer inevitably sketches a personality profile of that country: its mood and tempo, its political priorities, its sense of humor (if any) and, above all, its attitudes toward sex and romance. Americans, to judge from the movies they make and attend, are fast, rough, raunchy lovers -- backseat studs and born- to-thrill prom queens. Canadians cannot decide whether to imitate American energy or British reserve. Germans are dogmatic and ironic by turns; and the men snore in bed, but only, as one of them explains, "to protect their...
...where two kidnapers have cut the girl's hair and changed her clothes. Some are funny, like the student survey that "discovers" that green M&M's are an aphrodisiac, and some maliciously lead to racial stereotyping. Brunvand, a professor of English at the University of Utah, sees little humor or truth in the 1980 rumor that Southeast Asian immigrants in California were capturing and eating pets. Yet many people want to believe such tales. "I could run ads with the Super Bowl broadcast saying that the latest hot legends are pure folklore," says Brunvand, "and still some people . . . would...