Word: jests
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Passe, who is married to actor Paul Le Mat (American Graffiti, Melvin and Howard), has had an occasionally stormy working relationship with Gordy. She describes him, only partly in jest, as a special kind of mentor, "a tormentor." Yet Gordy has given de Passe the freedom to run the company as she sees fit. Says Gordy: "If somebody had asked me a year ago, I would never have guessed we were going to do a western." Now that de Passe has reached near the top of Hollywood's mostly white, mostly male elite, she maintains that...
...forever telling them ((local officials)) to go forward," says the fictional letter to Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, "but you never explain which way is forward. They themselves have no idea." That jest might not earn so much as a chuckle in a Johnny Carson monologue or an Art Buchwald column, but in the Soviet Union, where satirizing state officials can be harmful to one's health, the letter is a comedic landmark of sorts. Its appearance in the March issue of Theater, a glossy literary monthly, may mark the first time | that the name of a sitting Soviet leader...
Sure, Harvard fans are able to come up with some of the best wisecracks in the ECAC. Against Cornell last year, in a game played February 14, the Crimson was blanking the Big Red. The crowd's jest: "Hey, Cornell, it's Valentine's Day and you can't score...
Elliot Stein, chairman of Stifel Financial Corp., one of the city's largest investment firms, addresses his employees in grim jest: "I would like to open our teleconference by leading you in prayer...
...personally very proud of it, but it will probably be the end of my career," said the aspiring author, only half in jest. Vilmure said the responses to his second novel "have been discouraging," and said he has not yet been able to find a publisher...