Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...used to joke about gracious living, but it was quite pleasant to sit down and have a good meal," says Heywood, now a psychiatric social worker. "Harvard had those wonderful dining halls which looked elegant, but it was very uncivilized...
...state, 150 years ago. The Texan's ancestral memory is strong. The state's highways are lined with historical markers, as well as with antilittering signs that sound just the right note of truculent nationalism: don't mess with texas. Texans cherish a sort of dual citizenship. They joke about it. Lone Star calls itself the national beer of Texas. It is hard to imagine a man from Chicago calling himself an Illinoisan in the way that a man from Dallas will call himself a Texan...
...charms of Texas is its inherent exaggeration of almost everything. Its weather runs to violent extremes. It is a rough joke to survive a drought of several years and then find the drought broken by torrential rains that can flood the town and wash away the pickup truck. Texas humor, like the Texas landscape, accommodates outrageous possibilities...
Last week's news shook Wall Street like a 100-point dive in the Dow Jones industrial average. Traders are wondering who might be the investigators' next target. Says one broker: "Everybody has done insider trading at one time or another." Observes a senior investment banker: "People used to joke around about insider trading. Now it's in extremely bad taste to crack such jokes." These days, needless to say, Dennis Levine and those who swapped secrets with him are not laughing...
...drive. The highest-paid acts--whole family troupes that shoulder chores across the board, from flying high to walking nags--get $2,400 a week, in cash, each Sunday, payday. The lowest-level pay is $75 a week. Seventy-five, incidentally, is what the butt of the ancient joke, the kid who tidies after the elephants, receives. It may be the arts, but at Carson & Barnes it means disposing of twelve fragrant cubic yards a day. James K. Judkins, general manager of the circus, started this...