Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great American Novel, a satiric fantasy about a mythical baseball league; Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions, a surrealist account of a car dealer in the Midwest. Vonnegut is the Erasmus of the black comedians, who feels life as tragedy but tries to see it as a joke that can be ruefully shared. Roth at 40 is some sort of jet-propelled dervish who whirls through literature, demolishing forms, spinning off royalty checks, and leaving everybody (including Roth himself perhaps) to wonder where he will strike next. Both books are funny. Roth's seems compulsive, self-conscious...
...there is a moral here, it may be that-where comedy is concerned -growing up is knowing the joke...
...Some people thought it was a joke," Frost said yesterday, "and some thought it was serious and were afraid to sign...
...crew was augmented for the occasion by at least 50 security men and several Labrador retrievers whose mission was to sniff out any explosives that might be hidden within the ship. With three tons of matzoth in the pantry to be served during the eight-day Passover, one joke circulating on board was that, if necessary, the passengers could always float to safety on a raft of unleavened bread...
...campaign started as a joke shortly before the primary two weeks ago. The "perverts" quickly gained momentum and their slate of candidates received a plurality in the primary election. "We ran because we realized what a farce student government is, and we are all perverts anyway," Goodman said...