Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reminded of a Dutch joke: In the year 2000, a schoolboy was asked who Brezhnev was. After a pause, he answered: "An unimportant Russian statesman in the time of Alexander Solzhenitsyn...
Serpico is an energetic melodrama, with just enough realistic bite to shine against its current rivals. Its entertainment values hide a sour joke: one of the few heroic stories of our time has been filmed by men who lack their hero's passionate commitment to advance righteous endeavors to the necessary ends...
NOTHING IS guaranteed to make an audience feel more awkward than a joke which doesn't work. The captive spectator, forced to watch a fellow human being struggling for laughs where few are to be had, is constantly beset by nagging questions and self-doubt. Why am I here? How can it be that I have paid to see this? How far away is the exit...
...wanted to show what marriage can be like for a young couple when the rules have changed. The old formulas aren't there any more and these people have to get by without any until new ones take their place," McCleery explained. "They have to remember the old joke about how porcupines make love," he added whimsically. "They do it very carefully." In Hardesty Park Roger and Pat blunder their way into a more balanced rapport, pricking each other with their quills in the process. By the end of the play McCleery offers an optimistic perspective on marriage. Egos remain...
...gooks,"one can envision a Germany of the future, the edge of atrocity dulled by time, in which children play "Nazis and Jews" (the destruction of Warsaw was, after all, a dangerous business), and in which an actor famous for portraying death-camp officers is feted, as a joke, of course, by the University of Heidelberg humor magazine. "The old celluloid hero had his bluff called by the raucous students, and he took it like a man. Except for a few spoil sports, a good time was had by all." Undoubtedly there will be efficient means for dealing with spoil...