Word: jokes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...It’s a joke, it doesn’t exist, it’s stupid to say there’s concentration advising,” says economics concentrator Griffin E. Schroeder...
...realized very quickly that this wasn’t just a big joke,” says Langguth, who later became Crimson president...
What gives The Comeback its, well, reality is Kudrow's layered performance; she gives sympathy and poignance to what could have been a one-joke dimwit. Valerie is the Willy Loman of sitcoms, trying to will herself into the second half of her career on a blow-dry and a nervous smile. When it gets past its preaching about reality TV and show biz, The Comeback hits a universal theme: Valerie is being forced, despite her struggle, to recognize the truth about herself. During a spat, she tells her sitcom's producer how much better she was treated...
According to researchers at the American Thoracic Society meeting last week, a good joke may bring on asthma symptoms as effectively as tree pollen or exhaust fumes. In a study of 235 asthmatics, laughter induced symptoms like coughing and chest tightness in 56%. How much laughter is too much? For some patients, a giggle was as dangerous as a guffaw...
...fourth of nearly a dozen visits to West Point reporting this week's TIME cover story I find myself on The Plain, the parade ground that, the joke says, is "the most heavily mock-defended acre in the world." The occasion of the day is the pending retirement of several of West Point's highest officers, the heads of History and Social Sciences, the dean of Academics, and cadets are performing one of the tasks they hate most: parading across the field, a thousand of them in their stiffest formal grays, plumes whipping in the heavy wind...