Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing about The Good Woman is that it is a joke, a big, bizarre, stylish joke. The HDC seems to forget to laugh at times, but its confusing and spontaneous telling of the joke never bores and for this we are thankful...
...spite of the damage you have done, I do hope that you will print this letter. Perhaps you will realize how serious your "joke" has been. And students who have been misled into thinking they could pick up copies of the parody at the CRIMSON should at least be told they have, at your instigation, been put to a considerable inconvenience. W. Hinkham-Browne, Archivist...
...Huston and his troupe hoped to pull a joke on their old faithful audiences, the joke falls somewhere else, because Beat The Devil is better than any stock article...
...direction is real artistry. The Italian scenes were all shot in that vibrant natural light Huston manages to record. Every shot is composed with the care and sense of proportion found in a good salon still. The film as a whole is a good-natured and beautifully turned-out joke, a string of very funny, often non-sequitur, sequences...
...such circumstances, the election was a bitter joke. Of the three leading candidates for President, Dr. Ramon Grau San Martin, 71, two-time former President (1933-34, 1944-48), had no chance at all. The only chance for Carlos Marquez Sterling, 59, lawyer and economist, lay in the unlikely possibility that Batista might want a graceful exit from an uncomfortable situation. The favorite was Batista's man, Andres Rivero Aguero, 53, a longtime henchman hand-picked to succeed the dictator. At Batista's side since 1933, Rivero Aguero was one of his lieutenants in the 1952 coup...