Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abused with Live and Let Die. Because of its extensive use of blacks, it attempts to broaden its appeal and double its audience. But it only offends. Fleming's loving portrait of Harlem by night is gone, replaced by a leering broad daylight cab ride into Harlem, whose one joke is of course Bond's whiteness in black Harlem. There is an obligatory Harlem shot (125th and Lenox probably). But this is obviously not Harlem, because this Harlem has no people, only pimps and pimp cars. It's a set piece, all clothes and cars. The Superfly ripoff is appalling...
Husband with a wandering eye meets divorcée who has no current attachments. They fly off together on an illicit holiday, fight and joke with each other, and fall in love. Back home again, they set up a mutually convenient rendezvous, a small, snug apartment. The affair, always frazzled, starts to look a little frayed, worn by convention, threatened by guilt and irresolution...
...have the feeling that he has worked out the entire scenario in advance, and he is sticking to it all the way," says one observer. He loves to talk late at night, trying to wear down his opponents, and often stays at the table until the small hours. A joke about his 1971 visit to France is being recalled these days in Washington. As Brezhnev left Paris, a French journalist remarked: "One more negotiating session...
...twelve lackluster years largely by entertaining Angelenos, but they had begun to tire of the show. In his last term, he spent one out of every four days outside the city. Most of the time he was overseas, garnering publicity and decorations, and his wanderings had become a joke. Cracked Bradley: "People ask why Yorty doesn't go to Watts. But the mayor has an answer. He says that just as soon as Pan Am flies there...
...that's a joke," Seddon said the day before his young Quaker squad edged the Crimson 3-2 in Harvard's first game north of the Mason Dixon Line, "Harvard will be hearing a lot about that during the year." Penn figured it would get the last laugh by beating Harvard in the all important Eastern League, and play in the NCAA District I tourney...