Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...December, as some people are sure to remember, right about the time when we were studying for finals and right about the time when few people wanted to become absorbed in any controversial battle over any issue, the Harvard Lampoon made a "joke" about Africa and African people. In the Lampoon's issue, "On Civilized Man," located inside the front and back cover there was a strip entitled "My Summer in Africa" that looked very much like the cartoon images that were being portrayed about Africa in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries by groups who wished to use such...
...which Mozart wrote soon after his father Leopold's death--usually taken as evidence that the composer underwent profound emotional stress--is here traced directly to one of the era's popular books on philosophy; in addition, Hildesheimer observes. Mozart's first composition after the letter was "A Musical Joke." Hildesheimer also presents his own interpretation of Mozart's notorious tendency to indulge in "fecal comedy." The crude giggly figure of Mozart seen in Peter Sheffer's play "Amadeus" is, it seems, part of the unsavory reality of history. Other half-truths are taken up along the way and variously...
...joke about Heidi can stay in, but one off-color comment about the Queen has to go. Rivers accepts quickly and that night is all fizz and sparkle, giving not a hint that she has traveled the same ground many times before...
...there anyone, sovereign, subject or just plain citizen, safe from Rivers' barbs? "Deformed children," she answers. "And religion I'm very careful with. Otherwise, no. Everyone I've ever made a joke about has been huge. Who cares if I tell Sophia Loreri she's a tramp? She doesn't even know who I am. All I am saying about Elizabeth Taylor is what everyone else is saying. She ought to thank me. I'm part of the reason she lost weight...
...cares? It's boring. Then you become the grand old lady. The audience will make a subject sacrosanct anyway. Death, for example. They just don't want to laugh about death. I think we should. When my mother died, I kept going by doing joke after joke. I get rid of things through very black humor. I have a wonderful Karen Carpenter joke: 'I have no pity for anyone who becomes thin enough to get buried in pleats.' I tried it three times, and audiences gasped. They're just not ready...