Word: joke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...doubt about it: Jimmy Carter was mad as hell. At a press conference in Chicago last week, the President castigated the Soviet Union for its continued "interference in the internal affairs of African nations." He accused Cuba of being a "surrogate for the Soviet Union," adding: "It is a joke to call Cuba nonaligned." And he warned the Russians that "unless they show some constraints on their own involvement in Africa and on sending Cuban troops to be involved in Africa, [they] will make it much more difficult to conclude a SALT agreement...
...developed a style all his own, and his music was marked by a constant vitality, good humor and an inimitable, natural ease. The songs he composed had the same ebullience. "There isn't a dead bar in his music," says Richard Maltby Jr. "Every one has a joke in it. He wrote the wittiest songs I've ever heard." Besides the title song, Waller's hits include Honeysuckle Rose, I've Got a Feeling I'm Falling, The Joint Is Jumpin 'and Lookin' Good but Feelin...
...joke when Weidenbaum brings forth sheaves of records of dozens of foundries-in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Alabama, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Kentucky-that had to close because they could not afford to meet requirements of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. He collects reports of hundreds of small companies that have abandoned pension plans because they could not comply with the expensive requirements of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), "and so the worker winds up with no pension...
Depending on one's point of view, FM is either 1) some Hollywood executive's idea of an extravagant practical joke or 2) a major breakthrough in avant-garde cinema or 3) the most amateurish major studio release so far this year. Those moviegoers who conclude that FM is 1) or 2) will find the film a fascinating experience. Those who decide that FM is in fact 3) may want to write the film's distributor, Universal Pictures, and demand their ticket money back. But any moviegoer with a taste for adventure will surely want to sample...
...good launching pad toward a career in organized activity. By sophomore year I was splitting time between the Diet Committee and SO. (Students of Oppression). Politics had never been my beat though, until recently. I was looking up the word 'aperture' in the dictionary to explain a joke I had just told when I came upon the word 'apartheid.' I began thinking of all the possibilities for new activism around campus. Everyone was remarking how there was something in the air these days, as if the dictates of some cycle were swinging the winds of change back into our laps...