Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dressing: it stayed together only when shaken frequently. The corps of boys and girls-drawn from both the Jeffrey and Tharp companies-did its best, wiggling and jerking in ways that sometimes recalled the old one-reeler days. But the result was too much of a campy, flippant "in" joke...
...parents, Nagg (Tom Costello) and Nell (Saskia Noordhoek Hegt), are like moths whose wings have iced. They flutter feebly, not in the text's ash bins, but in a laundry hamper and a G.E. refrigerator carton. Their crippled son Hamm (Gerry Bamman) treats the universe as a sorry joke, his servant Clov (Larry Pine) as a straight man, and his fate as a glorious chance to play M.C. in death's cabaret...
...built the car as a kind of practical joke," he explains, "but it wasn't very practical because now I don't know what to do with...
...JOKE cost Paige quite a bit of effort. A year and a half ago Paige--then a 22-year-old disaffected drop-out from San Fernando Valley State College--went to McKinleyville, a tiny village in Northern California, to get away from it all. "But then I just got the idea that I should build 'The Dickmobile'," Paige says. Although the car is made largely from what he terms "junk," it took him seven months to build. After finishing the car, Paige drove it to Los Angeles because, he says, "this is where 'The Dickmobile' belongs...
Nozick declined Monday to discuss the aspirations he holds for the course until it is under way, but said that the course will be a serious one and is not the joke many students seem to find...