Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pepper Coast. Liberians had to build their country from scratch. "We did not have the luck to be colonized," is a standard Liberian joke, and it is true that there were no imperial rulers to leave behind post offices and palaces, schools and hospitals. The population, which the government estimates at around 2,000,000, consists of a 99% tribal majority living in primitive isolation in the back country and a 1% governing minority called Americo-Liberians, descended from a group of freed U.S. slaves sent to the Pepper Coast of Africa with the backing of President James Monroe...
Wade, in telling his story, made no attempt to explain how Oswald escaped from the building sealed off by scores of Dallas police. We leave that mystery to enter a new one. Why did Oswald, fleeing the scene of a murder, joke publicly about the murder? Why did he "laugh very loud?" Such behavior is hardly, consistent with 48 hours of consistent denial of guilt when in custody of the Dalles authorities. The laughter on the bus story seemed so unlikely that the FBI, in off-the-record briefing sessions for the press, conceded that it was untrue...
Mills takes his joke too far. This is apparent from the beginning, when a brisk prologue and a bold community sing are allowed to founder on an unwieldy and interminable overture (written by Mills, who produced all the music) that adds nothing but a memory of Beyond the Fringe...
...armed forces.* A military tolerance of a democratic regime is especially remarkable in Venezuela. During Venezuela's 133 years as a republic, no constitutional President has ever completed his term, and 16 out of 24 Presidents have been generals. Venezuela's favorite sports, goes the Caracas joke, are bolas, caña y golpes-rumors, rum and military coups...
...sale, and-fortunately-neither is Alexander Calder's Pull Toy with Rocks. The usually delicate Calder touch does not work on the four Ballantine Ale cans he has strung together with wire and filled with clashing, crashing stones. Pop Artist Andy Warhol perpetrates a botu-listic sick joke: a dozen T shirts (which unadorned sell for 50? apiece) carry his silk-screen representation of the tainted tuna tins that poisoned two Detroit housewives nine months ago Price: $300 each...