Word: jocularities
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...suspected informant in the head. According to Light, the victim was stuffed into a 55-gal. drum, which Cutola then dumped into the East River. As Light tells it, the body's gases caused the drum to rise to the surface. "Next time, I'll know better," a jocular Cutola reportedly told Light after he was cleared of the murder charge. "I'll cut his stomach open...
...repeat performance, but this time the Administration was more forthcoming. When Ronald Reagan walked into the press conference he called to discuss the denouement of the Achille Lauro hijacking, he was wearing a flesh- colored bandage on his nose. He opened with a jocular announcement: another cancerous growth had been removed, and "I can stand before you proudly and say my nose is clean...
...extensive interview, Grunwald lightened the serious tone by inquiring whether Gorbachev's attractive wife Raisa would accompany the General Secretary to the summit talks in Geneva. Gorbachev said she would. "That's good," said Grunwald. "You know, the Western press is in love with her." The jocular answer was vintage Gorbachev: "Well, in that case, maybe I should reconsider...
Just a year ago, Daley Thompson mailed a postcard to Bob Mathias, the only man ever to win two decathlon gold medals (in 1948 and 1952). "I'm going to get you," the card said with the jocular pointedness that is Thompson's singular way. Last week, after the two days and ten events that test for the title of world's greatest athlete, Thompson, 26, the cheeky, irrepressible winner of the 1980 decathlon, had made good on his challenge. He did not make it look easy, but he managed to make it look like...
...Between strategy meetings with Walter Mondale and work sessions with aides who are drafting her acceptance speech, Geraldine Ferraro took time last Saturday afternoon to meet with TIME Correspondent John F. Stacks. Savoring the sun on the deck of a rented Lake Tahoe resort home, Ferraro was relaxed and jocular and occasionally complained about the inevitable "sexist" questions. Her husband John Zaccaro and her daughters Laura and Donna sat near by and sometimes interjected thoughts of their own. Excerpts from the interview...