Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concluded that Barry's views were "diametrically opposed" to the stand of the three major U.S. faiths on questions of international relations, civil rights and economic policy. And Chicago's Second City satirists were breaking up audiences with the gag: "Question: What's the latest elephant joke? Answer: Barry Goldwater...
...town of 30,000 on the fringes of Normandy, 60 miles from Paris. His shoelaces, necktie, belt and wristwatch have been taken away; his only companions are a pimp and a chicken thief, and he spends his time reading Balzac's La Comédie Humaine. The joke, of sorts, was on Rhadames Trujillo, 22, multimillionaire son of the Dominican Republic's late dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo. Rhadames and three others of the high-living Trujillo clan suddenly face a court fight over the enormous fortune-estimated at something like $100 million-that they carried...
...getting to be a puppet that pulls its own strings." So runs the latest joke in Saigon. South Viet Nam's Premier Nguyen Khanh, not exactly an American puppet, certainly is the Vietnamese leader in whom the U.S. has shown its greatest confidence, and in whom it has placed its highest hopes. Last week, Khanh moved well ahead of official U.S. policy by saying, in effect, that the war against the Reds cannot be won so long as it is restricted to the south, that the only solution is to move against North Viet...
...cost $200 million a year. Prague, once called "the Golden City," is a mangy metropolis of sooty streets and faulty plumbing. Everywhere signs warn "Pozor pada omitka" (Beware of falling plaster). Railroads cannot haul all the coal needed for power. "What did we use before candles?" runs a favorite joke. The answer: "Electricity...
...eventually their personalities should emerge from beneath the pretense. The two actors in Three A.M. could not do that, however, for they never seem to have decided what their characters' personalities were. Certainly Foley does not give the much help. The play moves from topic to topic, from joke to joke. No pattern really emerges. The only development necessary is that the girl get gradually drunk enough to pass out immediately after announcing she will sleep with the boy. But Guzzetti might have had Gebow and Miss Wilson try something, if only to give the play a little more coherence...