Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening. Goodman engaged them with his views, but manipulated them with his mannerisms. He flattered them with sincere intimacy, like a permissive father might his rakish son, and soon they were tittering at the mention of intercourse, snickering at each four-letter word like preppies at a locker-room joke...
...ritual incantation; Nikita is obviously convinced that only its vastly increased use can raise production enough to avoid drastic food cuts or permanent dependence on expensive foreign farm products, such as the 11 million tons of wheat the Soviets are buying from the West. Asks a current Moscow joke: "What was Stalin's last mistake?" Answer: "He stockpiled enough grain for only ten years...
Apollinaire didn't steal it really. That heroic act was reserved for an Italian house painter with an inflated sense of national pride. But Apollinaire and the young Picasso did happen to be harboring some statuettes that a zany friend had stolen from the Louvre as a joke. Once, during the national furor which followed, Apollinaire and Picasso wandered the streets of Paris for an entire night, miserably toting the incriminating statuettes in a suitcase, not knowing whether to throw them or themselves into the Seine and not quite daring to do either. Eventually, Apollinaire had them returned...
...play is a prolonged joke on the theme of seduction. Tolen, a full-time girl chaser who "just isn't satisfied unless he has had it for five hours a day," shares a house with Colin, a bumbling schoolteacher who is desperate for sexual experience, and Tom, an imp whose chief delight lies in tormenting the other...
PLANET OF APES, by Pierre Boulle. By keeping the pace fast and sideshows entertaining, Author Boulle gets a whole novel out of a one-line joke-what life would be like if monkeys, not men, won the anthropological race...