Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Swim, first published in London in 1939 and twelve years later in New York, has since gathered a subterranean reputation-and thus this new edition-as possibly the most maddeningly complicated book ever written. It is also funny, once the reader gets used to the suspicion that the biggest joke...
Today Ed Sullivan pays King more than $10,000-or roughly $400 per joke-to be a guest on his TV show. King is the star of The Impossible Years, an impossible Broadway play, which, despite chilly reviews from the critics, has been selling out for seven months...
...easy to dismiss this sort of thing as irresponsible fantasy, but it should be recalled that this last little apparently sick mick joke is directed against James Joyce, who made one of his characters rage against Ireland as "the old sow that eats her own farrow...
Flann O'Brien, the man with three names, might have enjoyed a last posthumous joke in the last paragraph of his brilliant book. He cites a German who was hung up on the number three: "He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular vein with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife goodbye, goodbye, good-bye." Even the Irish don't joke about the Trinity except in dead unearnest...
...shaving while bump-and-grind music accompanies the disappearance of the beard and a girl's voice pants: "Take it off. Take it all off." Gordon Bushell, creative director at Esty, Maura Dausey, intended Noxzema viewers to "get the pleasant feeling of being in on a joke. We hope the audience will laugh along with us-and buy a can of Noxzema...