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...Georgia game), Duke strikes out into the jumble of vans and says facetiously, "We might even meet some opposition out here!" A woman at one van, standing next to a scribbling reporter, shouts, "We love you, David, and to hell with the media." (In the best Southern tradition of jocular animosity, she hugs me while she says it.) Young people along his route take up and pass along his barked accolade: "Duke!" "Duke!" "Duke!" "Duke...
...imagine that their soda-shop infatuation scene has ever been performed better. Miller, though, is not quite up to the last act's demands of kittenish adolescence combined with otherworldly grace. The rest of the 27- member cast is solid, and Peter Maloney is memorable as Emily's jocular yet practical father...
Smith keeps encountering that miracle on his pastoral wanderings. A septuagenarian lay preacher named Peter Mabuza, for example, welcomes him to his tiny township house and offers Coca-Cola and cookies, along with jocular tales of his youth, when his "baas" thrashed him for sitting on the bed of the baas' son while he helped the boy with his homework. "He t'rashed me again," Mabuza goes on, "when he caught me riding his son's bicycle instead of pushing it back from the railroad station...
...voter approached Vellucci and LaFuente, saying in jocular accented English, "I'm Portuguese--how should I vote, Italian or Portuguese...
...collected a record 112 honorary degrees (runner-up: Herbert Hoover, with 89). These days are being filled with further honors as Father Ted says adieu. Last Saturday he gave a televised address via satellite to some 50,000 Notre Dame alumni around the world. He opened on the jocular note that "these recent weeks and months have been like attending one's own funeral," and he summed up with sentimental elegance, "I leave this university . . . in the hands of Notre Dame, Our Lady...