Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...death penalty would be a deterrent if administered to all murderers. The current practice in the U.S., which has allowed just six executions since 1977, is not a deterrent but a joke...
...crease. Rupert Pupkin is agreeable; encountering the boyish befuddlement with which he sometimes camouflages his essentially persistent, not to say obsessive, nature, frosty receptionists melt down to disarmed motherliness-even though he never has an appointment. Rupert Pupkin is helpful; he will give you his latest and best joke, run errands for you, even come bravely to your rescue in a life-threatening situation. In short, Rupert Pupkin is a national menace...
...father used to ask me that one when I was seven, along with the knee-slapper about what has four wheels and flies? Even then, the joke seemed pretty lame, but an appealing new response has appeared in the form of the album Red All Over by the group Busload of Nuns, featuring the performances of Marc Lowenstein '85 and Andrea Burke '85. The record's somber album jacket is, you guessed it, black and white, but the slyly absurd title is just a harbinger of the album's unexpected jabs at presence and pretension. Red All Over, like...
...Jaffe's low-key interpretation. The tautness of her motions often reveals the depth of her characterization. When she visits her husband in the hospital, after he is beat up in the course of the investigation, her otherwise highly poised muscles relax as she tells him a terrible joke. That one moment evokes the despurate need for affection behind their irreparable estrangement. Susan reaches the breaking point late in the movie, in an explosive tirade against her best friend. In this scene, her seemingly insane refusal to admit that her son is dead reveals the fury of her subconscious struggle...
...pervasive is this way of life that the Czechs themselves joke about it constantly. They even made a film about it titled Friday Is No Holiday. The movie shows workers plodding lazily through their jobs during most of the week. Then comes Friday, and suddenly the proletariat turns industrious. Some steal bricks to complete the lakeside cottage, others "borrow" pipes for a private plumbing job or barter for extra gasoline to make a weekend excursion. Released in 1978, the film drew packed houses in theaters across the country during its run. The boffo business was not surprising in a country...