Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...robust six-footer, beginning to succumb to a follicle defoliation and a corpuscle accumulation, Coffin radiates a certain bon vivant, I'll-lick-any-man-in-the-house love of live. Whether charging long at full speed, cracking a joke, or intently explaining his latest scheme to some vaguely conspiratorial group, his leg slung over the side of the armchair, this exuberance oozes from...
...prince is guarded by a sinister doctor and his coldly beautiful blonde daughter. That is the start, but after that Novelist Morton, author of the bestselling biography The Rothschilds, does none of the things a novelist is supposed to do. He shapes no story, evokes no emotion, tells no joke, makes no trenchant comment, follows no fascinating or even plausible character. His hero is a jackass even more boring than a professor-turned-pressagent might be expected...
Cooper and Conrad took these tribulations in good humor. They listened to Dixieland jazz beamed from Houston-Al Hirt trumpeting Muskrat Ramble, Birth of the Blues, Jada. Houston felt light enough to joke about speculation that Gemini 5 would fall short of its attempt to stay up eight days and have to come down before Sunday. Said Paul Haney, Gemini public affairs chief: "There has been consideration given here to playing Never on Sunday, but it was ruled out as inappropriate." Soon after, Houston cockily played the song...
...wants to?' " That is no idle boast for many. The IQs in the Washington project average 118, for example, and the kids cannot be conned by condescension. Indeed, most of them have a healthy attitude about the whole experience and, in their teen-age lingo, they like to joke about being "socially depraved." Quipped a Seattle girl: "We didn't know we were deprived of anything until we read about...
...label Senator Thomas Kuchel a "moderate." What a joke! Any informed Republican knows he is a Western liberal of the Eastern liberal establishment variety. Viva Ronald Reagan for California Governor...