Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...graves. They are everywhere. The citizens and soldiers in the city were buried where they fell. One grave contains 600 bodies that were hastily covered over in an effort to rid the city of their stench. Another contains only the body of a young girl who used to joke and laugh with the troops; it is well tended...
...says Brown. "Comin' back in, I move slow. Try to get the feel in the air. I take three times as long to put on my shoes, lace 'em up. I got to get the feel. If I can't, if I laugh or tell a joke 'cause I'm feeling good and haven't felt the vibes of the prison-if I can't get with the mood, the agony, the pain of the place, I could get killed, and it would be just another accident. That's prison...
...Mild Joke. Press Critic Ben Bagdikian recently focused attention on the paper when he ranked the Eagle (along with the New York Times and Paris' Le Monde) as one of the world's three "great newspapers" (TIME, Aug. 28). Washington Post Editorial Writer Stephen Rosenfeld, an ex-Eagle staffer, thinks that Bagdikian was "charmed as an outsider to discover that there exists in the Berkshires a paper that appeals to the New York Times reader." Eagle Managing Editor Kingsley ("Rex") Fall says: "We're proud of what we do, and we hope we're getting better...
According to the new constitution, Marcos, who was limited to two terms under the old law, will be able to serve simultaneously as interim President and interim Prime Minister as long as he pleases. Manileños joke that each day after the plebiscite, President Marcos will relinquish a little power and Prime Minister Marcos will gain a little. Asked if he had any idea how long after the ratification of the new constitution he would call for new elections, Marcos replied: "I would rather not speculate. Under the old constitution, an election would take place in 1973. Since martial...
EDWIN MULLHOUSE by Steven Millhauser. This skillful first novel is both a literary Nabokovian joke-about an 11-year-old who writes the biography of a dead playmate-and an affecting memoir of childhood...