Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Price Jr., a professor of Government and dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government said yesterday that he thought it was a "swell joke" but that additional standards would be necessary if Harvard were to seriously consider The as a visiting professor...
Last year, The Crimson published a joke issue of The Daily News announcing Yale's plans to build a domed stadium in the middle of a New Haven ghetto area and to turn the Yale Bowl into low cost housing...
...drinkers damn the pop wines as an insult to cultivated taste. "Ernest Gallo has done more for the industry than any individual alive," says Joe Heitz, whose small winery turns out some of the state's most sophisticated wines. Though Gallo wines have long been something of a joke among wine snobs, lately oenophiles have been pleasantly surprised. Gallo's Pink Chablis recently triumphed over ten costlier competitors in a blind tasting among a panel of wine-industry executives in Los Angeles. Says Robert Balzer, a wine critic for Holiday and the Los Angeles Times: "Gallo Hearty Burgundy...
...only when the insane borders on the zany, the pathetic on the ludicrous that I found myself questioning Wasserman's skillful adaptation. This speeded-up version of a long and often agonizing story is hilariously funny. At times I fought my laughter, waiting guiltily for each new joke or comical incident, wondering who I was to laugh at the tragedy of mutilated minds, twisted psyches and lobotomized egos. In the book, laughter had come as relief from too much suffering, for both the characters and the reader, and accompanied the happier episodes of McMurphy's struggle against authority and self...
...movie bemused and unconvinced. A couple admired it, saying "That's wild," then wondered, "What's he doing?" The next audience that evening never stopped laughing. One might well ask, as does one confused character when caught in an uncomfortable situation midway through the movie, "Is this a joke?" And to that, Bunuel would have answered...