Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Britain sold six Viscount turbo prop planes to Peking last month, one official said wryly: "We've sent six Viscounts to Communist China-seven if you count Lord Montgomery.''* But to the U.S. it was no joke. "We are not very happy about that sale." said Secretary of State Dean Rusk. The Treasury Department told the International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. that it would withhold a U.S. license permitting its British subsidiary to supply British-made navigational gear for the Viscounts...
...Congo something always seems to turn the soberest occasion into a joke...
...less Dwight Eisenhower's fault than he once suspected. At a recent meeting of the National Security Council, Kennedy opened a folder filled with briefs of U.S. problems. "Now, let's see," he said. "Did we inherit these, or are these our own?" Now, Kennedy can even joke to friends: "I had plenty of problems when I came in. But wait until the fellow who follows me sees what he will inherit...
...Alley. For $3 a night, he started to emcee amateur shows all over the city, keeping a joke book with the dirty ones circled and the clean ones starred. When his mother died of erysipelas. Jackie, not yet 20, moved to Manhattan and began to seek bookings in nightclubs. During a three-year job at something called Club Miami in Newark, N.J.. he kept the crowds amused by insulting them, occasionally stepping into the alley to fight it out with a customer. One night a patron smashed him into unconsciousness. It turned out that the patron was boxing...
Alas, this "palpable-gross play," even with actors from London's Old Vic Theater to read the roles in the U.S. version, is far less funny in puppetry than it is in person-the soul of the joke, as Shakespeare tells it, is that real live people are making such asses of themselves. But whenever the film depends less on what is said than on what is seen, it is fantastically good. Let an acorn fall from a tree, does it lie there like any natural nut? No, it is an acorn of the mind that spins like...