Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each sketch, joke, song and story is delivered, the play tilts from funny to bitingly sarcastic. A playful bit targetting female images in popular media, from those of Father Knows Best to Charlie's Angels to Tootsie, comes only after a caustic routine in which cast members playing male children are told that because they have a penis, they can grow up to be anything they want, while the girls are told that because they don't have a penis, they cannot...
East Europeans use political humor to stay sane. A joke now making the rounds in coffeehouses and parlors involves a meeting of East bloc leaders to decide how to react to Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of glasnost, or openness. Recalling the Soviet invasions of Hungary and Czechoslovakia to stop reforms, they announce that Warsaw Pact troops are invading the Soviet Union to crush the threat to Communism posed by the radical Gorbachev regime...
...rated teen farce, and the carnal violence was a lot less toxic than the damage Freddy or Jason or any other horror-show serial killer wreaks in an eyewink. Further, the intent of Director Alan Parker was serious and free of titillation. The board's game was a sick joke at the expense of ambitious filmmakers, and it was resolved last week with the snipping of ten seconds of feral footsie. In the movie business, almost everyone has to make deals with the devil...
...think there's no excuse for this type of behavior. There's no such thing as a big joke in this situation," the official said after shutting down WJJX. PRINCETON...
...many people I know who have had this operation have tried to do too much too soon," she said. "They had to go back to the hospital. I'm not going to have that happen now." That settled it. Reagan didn't even take the usual 30 minutes to joke with the establishment at the recent Alfalfa Club dinner. He stayed home and rested...