Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clutch of reactionary flower-gardeners. The ladies decide to call in a one-man Senate investigating committee, Sea-bigot Colder, to drive the dancers out; this amiable demagogue tries in the process to indict Senator Hardy for not fulfilling a government fertilizer (wonderful stuff for a certain sort of joke) contract. At the same time Wholsa falls out with Marsh, and in with the Crimean Igor Beevor; Pansy's son Andy out with a love of medicine and in with the seductive ballerina Katerina Artburnova; and eventually, Pansy out with Senator Colder and back in with Senator Hardy. Reunions, reprises...
...received in France, where the Gaullist daily La Nation even dubbed the prospect of a multilateral force "la farce multilatérale." If the Polaris plan had been touted as a significant boost to the West's deterrent, the gibe might have been justified. As it was, the joke fell flat because a jointly manned, jointly financed armada may actually offer solid benefits for both the U.S. and Europe...
Reversed Numerology. He hero-worships George Burns and will fall down on the floor and vibrate like a concrete-mixer when Burns-or for that matter, any other comedian-cracks a joke. Danny Kaye once insisted that he would rather play Benny's living room than any theater on earth. Equally loyal to his TV staff, Benny hasn't hired a new writer for 14 years; he freely acknowledges his large debt to them, and when Fred Allen was once out-talking him in an ad-lib joust, he said testily that if only his writers were with...
...what law he has broken, badger him for bribes, steal his best shirts, subject him to an apparently pointless "interrogation." And then breeze off, leaving K. in a sweat. Were they really plainclothesmen-or were they crooks? Is he really arrested-or is the whole affair a practical joke? "I've done nothing wrong," he reflects uneasily, "and still I feel guilty...
...this last respect, Updike is not above playing a stylistic joke on himself. In one scene Peter stands by the side of a pool, listening to the sounds made by bodies breaking water: "Cecrops! Inachus!" Perfectly good sounds, both of them; one can hear the upper body cutting through, then perhaps the legs flopping and hitting the surface: "Cecrops!" But the sounds are the names, respectively, of the first king of Attica and that of a river god who became first king of Argos...