Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show all the time. He can neatly put a restraining ring through the nose of a bore, guide and sharpen the performance of an amateur-like the girls' national skateboard champion who appeared last week. He is a first-rate ad-libber, and has apparently stored away every joke he ever heard...
Moreover, since the state owns or controls all utilities, the two largest banks and two-thirds of all joint-stock companies. Proporz extends into corporate affairs and justifies featherbedding right on down to washroom attendants. A standard joke has it that "there are three people for every job in Austria, one conservative, one Socialist, and one to do the work...
...Society of Jesus, goes an old Jesuit joke, is "a monarchy limited only by the incompetence of its superiors and the insubordination of their subjects...
...human enough-sex. Two college boys and their girl friends borrow a Greenwich Village artist's studio for a weekend in hopes of satisfying that urge. They never do. The unalterable code of the bogus sex comedy forbids it: beds are props, not stops. It would be a joke to call Playwright Hunter's dialogue comic, though an attractive young cast paced by a wry comedienne named April Shawhan pumps stray laughs into the saggy script...
...year-old nerve end who goes by the name of Soupy Sales. As a comedian, he is hardly believable even when seen: a pastiche nut in kook's clothing, whose act wanders in and out of plain idiocy, with every tired old slapstick gag in the joke book thrown in free. Among other things, he throws pies. And his fans were right there with him, saluting their hero with salvos of everything from teddy bears to a training...