Word: jocularity
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...White and Blue even has some of the portentous overtones of Mailer's An American Dream, and like the Champ, Dunne has an acute sense of evil and a highly developed sniffer for the hydrants of power. He is also wickedly funny, if your taste runs to hilarious funerals, jocular murder trials and droll executions: "The warden and I had the prime rib. Yorkshire pudding and strawberry shortcake . . . Last meals. It would make a hell of a cookbook...
...should I know," he says in a gruff yet jocular manner. "What do I look like, a head teaching fellow...
...work, Harvardicus is stopped by a woman asking directions to Allsred. "How should I know," he says. "What do I look like, a head section leader?" and continues along his gruff yet jocular course...
...lecture, he announces that there will be a mandatory movie for everybody on Sunday at 8 a.m. After class, a student comes up and asks him where the movie will be. "How should I know," he says in a gruff, yet jocular manner. "What do I look like, a head section leader...
...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...