Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest issue, the editors of the Lampoon have descended to a new low in their seventy-five years of unmitigated dullness. Even the Life-Saver joke, usually the high point of each issue, if lifeless, trite, and unfunny. The Shaefer ad is unreadable, while the Coop ad, which is generally the only reason for buying the magazine in the first place, is totally tasteless and unprovocative...
...Please. Playing boogie-woogie once, says Jose, did not mean that he was giving up classical music. "I did it to please. It was like a joke at a party. A man tells one story and it comes off. Maybe he tells another, then another. But if he keeps on telling stories, very soon people do not take anything he says seriously. I did not want this thing to happen to me so I cut the boogie-woogie short. I tell only one joke-then I stop...
...long and brilliant stock. It is entertaining, but not too entertaining to obscure the fact that perhaps the only things Shaw consistently believed in were himself and that lean deity, Creative Evolution, a sort of mixture of Lilith and Mrs. Sidney Webb. Apart from that he never made a joke which he did not sooner or later pass off as truth, and never stated a truth that he did not eventually turn into a joke...
...theme of this type can easily become too moralizing and too artificial, but in this Italian film it doesn't. Don Genna--a friend of Matteo who regards life as one enormous joke--and other humorous relief keep the picture from being just another sermon...
...made no effort to snatch the prize. To a crowd of 600 in Trafalgar Square, indefatigable Nationalist Wendy Wood, leader of the Scottish Patriots' Association, cried, "The Stone belongs to Scotland; we shall get it back." But most Britons, English and Scots alike, seemed to feel that the joke had gone on quite long enough...