Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early on. Even though Vince was not especially musical (he still plays only the harmonica), he would dress up to imitate Elvis Presley or Ricky Nelson. Later, as a sophomore at Cortez High, he organized his first band, the Earwigs. "It wasn't a band, it was a joke," says his older sister Nickie. He also wrote sports and feature stories for the school paper under the ironic pseudonym Muscles McNasal - Muscles because he was so skinny, McNasal because of a misshapen nose. It seems that Vince bravely concluded a marathon run, then went home and fainted, nose first...
...There's really nothing more we can do," he said, "and a display like lying in front of the bulldozers would just be taken as a joke...
...farce as broad as Shaftesbury Avenue, but its high spirits are not entirely consistent with the great gobs of gore that Director Douglas Hickox leaves smeared about. Violence, under the circumstances, ought to have been a charade, but often it is so brutal and lingering that it spoils the joke...
...standard joke is that a Nieman isn't good for anything more than membership in a Harvard club and a job at Time (Newsweek) magazine. The joke speaks both to the striking loyalty which most Niemans feel to the program and also to its reputation as a job improvement mechanism...
About all you get from the likes of Private School Girls is a laugh (albeit a hard one). The dialogue is atrocious. Between exclamations of ecstasy, almost every audible line is little more than a sick, flaccid joke. Two examples from Private School Girls will show you what I mean...