Word: joke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some city dwellers, owning an apartment is an even better hedge against inflation than owning a house. In Chicago, the little local joke is that condos are the hottest thing since Mrs. O'Leary's celebrated fire. They are appreciating at an annual rate of 14% to 15%, vs. 12% for single family homes, and turnover of the city's 43,000 condos is almost double that of other residential real estate. In Boston's Wellesley Green condo, a three-bedroom apartment in what its developers, Spaulding & Slye Corp., describe as a "luxury, luxury condominium...
...whole, however. Simon avoids his usually relentless parade of quips. Chapter Two possesses none of the slick quality that mars some of his earlier plays, which made his characters sound like professional stand-up comedians, not believable human beings. Instead, the humor approaches the way people actually talk or joke, and even helps to crystallize one's impression of the characters. For example, the introductory scenes contrast her automatic efficiency with his numbed disorganization through jokes about the conditions of their respective apartments (her refrigerator is well-stocked, his contains "white bread turning into pumpernickel...
...rambling response. Trying to be folksy, he slipped into personal irrelevancies. "We both have beautiful and interesting wives," he said. He claimed that he had first started jogging when visiting Mexico City in the 1960s. Then he made an appalling attempt to turn his running habit into a joke. The reason he had raced from the Palace of Fine Arts to his hotel room on that visit, he said, was because "in the midst of the FolklÓrico performance, I discovered that I was afflicted with Montezuma's revenge." Instead of laughing, those present tittered nervously or remained...
After the bout, Yale coach Harutunian was predictably incensed with the directing. He labelled it "terrible," then added, pointing at two of the directors, "They're unbelievable." He said, "Usually, when Harvard comes to Yale we get the best directors from New York. It's a joke. Only people far way from fencing can do the things these guys do. Any child knows these things...
When a Hollywood producer called Wednesday to invite her to California this weekend to tape a Bob Hope special, Margaret M. Vaillancourt '79 thought it was a joke...