Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transcribers afraid merely to suggest a joke, leaving the details to the imagination of their readers. Take the great pizza caper, for example...
...retainer's role in high style. Kerry McCarthy is as good, as Rose Maybud, the soprano. And Douglas H. Hunt, as Fuller's foster-brother, trying to avoid his Ruddigorish fate without needing to die early, is just remarkable--perfectly solemn and apparently joyfully in on the joke at the same time. The whole production is like that--and it's certainly a joke worth being...
Although Chaban and Giscard at first agreed not to attack each other, Chaban last week warned his fellow Gaullists that Giscard will not be able to beat Mitterrand in the runoff. Chaban exhorted: "I say that I can defeat Mitterrand. You cannot joke on the May 5 ballot. Vote wisely! Vote Chaban-Delmas, who can keep us from the peril of Mitterrand...
...people who made this movie intended to capitalize on some so-called nostalgia craze, then somebody should have told them that there is more to the art of allusion than straight imitation. There is the self-consciousness that registers not the action but the joke in its reverberations; it puns off not the sense but the sensibility of the thing, a game of doublethink. But the self-consciousness of this movie is solipsistic. It is so linear in the literalness of its interpretation that it two-times rather than doublethinks Fitzgerald's story--it's all copycat. Fitzgerald might...
Patrick Sky. Sky's most recent album Songs that Made America Famous ("I tried to put something on it that would offend everyone") is essentially a long dead-baby joke. The remarkable thing is that he plays excellent guitar and banjo, and when he's not too drunk to be coherent, sings well enough too. Through Sunday, April 21 at the Stone Phoenix Coffee House...