Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...funny in a way, particularly since the white Mississippian will nod his head zealously through about two-thirds of the spiel, until he gets the point. Slack-jawed indignation ensues. I am afraid, though, that you have ruined my sardonic joke. I got half way through your cover story before nausea overtook me, and it occurred to me that blind barbarism-in the Congo, in Mississippi-is the one citadel that will not tumble before mockery...
...failure. She comes to the new play still wearing the life-of-the-party grin from Mary, Mary, but something in her mind is now saying that life is not that kind of party at all, and the result is a probing but irresolute comedy. Mary, Mary was a joke-filled shopping bag that existed to be torn so that the laughs would tumble out. Poor Richard is a net hopefully cast to trap character and at least two themes of some gravity-the capacity to love and the squandering of talent...
...into a wild and woolly revulsion called The Four Bears, which is composed, or decomposed, of a life jacket, a night table, and the extremities of a stuffed bear (whose sawed-off head nuzzles into a broken goldfish bowl). The human figure, when it appears, seems almost a wry joke. William King, 39, for instance, makes 7-ft. figures out of burlap and metal that are raucous commentaries on the self-pride of mankind. Richard A. Miller, 42, casts a conventional bronze nude. But he does it three times in the exquisite feminine gait clearly following Eadweard Muybridge...
That, actually, is the story line. This creature's name is Air Force Project 709. Her nickname is "Rhoda." She is made of transistors, computers, poly ethylene and a generator. Within her breasts are solar batteries. She is the central figure and continuous joke in CBS's new situation comedy, My Living Doll. Created for experimental purposes by aerospace scientists, she is for the moment on loan to a psychiatrist (Bob Cummings), who keeps her in his apartment. She will do anything he tells her to do, and when she doesn't under stand him, she says...
...those with the courage to seek them out and match them with the taste of the recipient, there are even real pictureless books for real reading. This year, however, the surprise is that some of the picture books are actually readable too. Among the dog books and bird books, joke books and gardening books, gun books, horse books, bridge books and seemingly endless art books, the following stand...