Word: joking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prehensile Tale. Boulle's tale clings prehensilely to this one turnabout joke, but rings nearly as many satiric changes on it as Swift did on the horsey Houyhnhnms. Caught in a hunting drive, the captured earthman watches as elegant female gorillas in fine tweeds utter little cries of admiration for the bag of naked humans their husbands have shot. The survivors are put in cages in the local laboratory, and Mérou finds that his dim-witted cellmates take weeks to learn to salivate when the keeper blows a whistle at mealtimes and never really catch...
...least two reactions are possible to this protracted, and at times painful, joke. The maid's is one: "Who has any interest in prolonging this confusion? Let's just leave things as they...
...Hope knows that his own native humor would never have got him out of Cleveland. He once waved a script at his writers and said, "This is all the talent I have, fellows." For it, he pays eight of them more than $450,000 a year. Thus each Hope joke is worth roughly the cost of a natural pearl...
...know Lapa, a tiny fishing village with no industry, no movies, no newspapers, and 60 per cent illiteracy, was roughly a two-day project. After that the volunteers began to get desperate. They borrowed a CVSF Jeep and went to examine a nearby hill. "It was sort of a joke," reported Onstad. "Even if we found something out, no one here in interested...
...bookies still picked the Yankees to win the second game. Dodger Manager Walter Alston's pitcher for this engagement was Johnny Podres, who at 31 is getting a trifle thick around the waist. There are those who joke that Bachelor Podres pitches harder off the field than on ("He's done all the things that Bo Belinsky says he has," goes one gag), but among his peers he has a reputation as a "money" pitcher who is toughest under pressure. Over 81 innings, he gave up only six hits and one run; then he handed the ball...