Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republican National Chairman William Miller: "We're going to take a lot of votes all over the country out of this, because people are going to think twice about the dynasty issue now. It was bad enough making Bobby Attorney General. But even that wasn't the joke this one is. The idea that Teddy is qualified to be a U.S. Senator is ridiculous...
Somebody has said that after fifteen minutes at this movie you get the joke. Maybe...
...they settle down to amuse themselves, the camera sweeps desultorily from one group to another, waiting only long enough to whet the viewer's curiosity. Just before the punchline of a joke or the winning trick of a card game, the scene shifts elsewhere. During this rapid cutting, the couple is included more and more frequently until the camera finally comes to rest on them. They are A and X, the third level...
...Gaulle's black Citroen was speeding toward his country home in Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises when suddenly flames erupted in the car's path. Miraculously, the plastic bomb that had been planted beside the lonely road did not explode. Shaken but unhurt, De Gaulle murmured: "Just a joke in bad taste." Last week the punch line of the joke was delivered in a drab courthouse at Troyes, 90 miles from Paris, where the S.A.O. terrorists who had plotted to assassinate France's President stood trial...
...acquaintances (Bergson, Nietzsche. Whitman) proclaim Miller's belief in the sovereignty of the heart over the mind. A nearly endless series of appallingly anatomical boy-meets-girl grapplings sometimes suggests that sex is the mystic key to magical joy, but often offers it as an uproarious poolhall joke...