Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down in history as the year that canned laughter made its greatest comeback. Every new sitchcom (adspeak for situation comedy) is a masterpiece of electronic control: three hees and a hah for a cracking knuckle or a lifted eyebrow, a two-decibel avalanche for a two-bit joke...
...Williams varsity, watched a stuborn Amherst team and a courageous goalie battle Harvard for two periods of fun, exciting soccer. With the Crimson lead 2 to 1 at the half, a drenching rain began and continued throughout the game, turning the field into a swamp and play into a joke...
...calls itself the African National Congress, led by Zuberi Mtemvu, a TANU renegade who recently returned from Peiping with fifteen boiler suits and enough money to buy himself a Mercedes- Benz. The Congress polled 60 votes the first time they ran a candidate, and 67 the second time. (The joke runs that Mtemvu's family had increased by seven during the interim.) I was told of men who had approached communist agents for money, ostensibly to establish local groups, and used the money to fly to London and enroll in a university...
Both Maciek and Szczuka long for peace and for the loving which war never left them time to take part in. Yet both must continue the way of life that they are convinced accomplishes things on this planet. Victory has played a joke on each: the Communist, now responsible to the Russians, has ceased to be a patriot; the partisan who now finds himself killing other Poles has become a terrorist...
...friend Artist Werner Gilles on the island of Ischia, he let year after year go by before he could bring himself to apply for a passport. He loved West Berlin with a passion, had not budged from it since 1945, and his mythical trip to Ischia became a standing joke among his friends...