Word: joke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...itself back in contention, CBS restructured its entire organization in October 1977, modeling itself on the winner, ABC, and in the process replaced almost its entire executive lineup. NBC also made big changes when Silverman arrived, and in Hollywood, where shows are produced, the standing joke is "If my boss calls, get his name." Robert Daly, president of CBS Entertainment, and Bud Grant, programming vice president, moved to Los Angeles to be nearer production. They were handed what seems to be a blank check to order pilots, giving them a much larger choice than their predecessors ever had. "They...
Joseph Heller gets more miles per novel than any other American-made author. Consider the phenomenal efficiency of Catch-22, a book that continues to run on one joke. It is the old switcheroo, best expressed by Doc Daneeka when he tells Yossarian "that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have...
Both Roos and DeFrantz said that the students' actions were probably no more than a joke. "If one were looking for reasons to start a protest, the actions could be interpreted as racist," Roos said...
...always considered him [Danehy] somewhat of a joke," she said, but added "I don't think it will hurt him with the voters. They don't seem to care." The next Cambridge municipal election will be held this September...
Many of her letters dealt with her unwavering Catholic faith, and on this subject she did not joke. She read theology voraciously, not to test her own belief but to judge the theologians...