Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There's some question as to whether the [Students for White Supremacy] actually exist," Molin said. "This may just be a bad, sick joke--the product of one or more sick minds...
...Snow frequently discusses the problems that a woman of the 1980's faces. She describes how difficult it is to get a date. "I haven't been dating a lot. Is it me, my personality or the threat of nuclear war?" Snow says. Snow's delivery of this joke in a smooth, sexy voice just adds to the already clearly hilarious material...
SNOW'S ability to laugh at herself urges the rest of the audience to chuckle as well. If she messes up a punch line, or no one appears to like the joke she just told, she is able to continue with the grace and style of a first-class comedienne...
...from Deaver's tributes. He describes Attorney General Edwin Meese as a man who would "as a matter of loyalty or conviction, sit there and deny something he knew to be true." Vice President George Bush gets high marks for calling all over the U.S. to provide a fresh joke for the President's daily briefing...
...lone gunfighters of the Old West. Aboard his campaign plane, if Dole does not like a reporter's question he will just stare stonily as if he did not hear it, letting the silence linger awkwardly until someone else changes the subject. These days Dole can at least joke about his continuing inability to delegate authority and accede gracefully to the advice of others, even his wife Elizabeth. Despite the success of Dole's off-the-cuff improvisations, this go-it-alone style is a worrisome sign of how he would approach the presidency...