Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...last of the candidates to speak, following John Anderson, John Connally, Philip Crane, George Bush, Howard Baker and Robert Dole. "I kept hearing my own answers coming back," he said. But he adroitly fielded an unwelcome question from the audience about why he had told an ethnic joke a few days earlier. Claiming that he had been on the right side "long before there was anything called civil rights," Reagan said that he was doublecrossed by a reporter. Said the candidate: "I was stiffed." But he assured the audience that he does not like telling ethnic jokes. He added: "From...
...Good joke. Much laughter?and no time to think about any confessional implications this line may carry, since the performer immediately launches into a rendition of Richard III's soliloquy, accompanying himself on a pair of "tuned chickens." But the fact is that what Peter Sellers told Kermit the Frog on The Muppet Show may be as frank a public statement as he can make about himself. It reveals his profound fear that the real Peter Sellers, at 54, is virtually a cipher, that he has no personality and that he will either not be able to find or will...
...stickers and the hats and the scarves. Everything that is officially Olympic costs $5. Two very high students walk down Main Street shouting, "You're walking on an Official Olympic Sidewalk, that'll be $5 please," and everyone laughs with them, like theirs is a big in-joke. Laughter fills the streets all the time in Lake Placid...
...just one of a million people the Olympic Committee has screwed today." The words are sacrilege in a way, jolting the spirit of the spectators within hearing distance, choosing to believe the ticket mess-up is an accident. Most people take the guard's cynicism as a joke, laughing all the way to the Romania-Czechoslovakia face...
...peace." Meanwhile Communism envelops country after country and achieves new missile capabilities. Most amazing is that the Communists themselves have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world (they have become more circumspect lately), while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke. Yet destroying a class is a process that has already been demonstrated in the U.S.S.R. So has the method of exiling an entire people into the wilderness in the space of 24 hours...