Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Premier Chou En-lai was in an expansive mood last week when he greeted 22 touring journalists from the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Peking's Great Hall of the People. During a wide-ranging, 3-hr. 40-min. conversation, Chou cracked a joke about Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger ("He can talk to you for half an hour and not give you one substantive answer") and gave a bit of news about China's birth control campaign (researchers are widely testing a once-a-month contraceptive pill). China's second-in-command also raised...
...trouble comes with the comedy, which consists mostly of Cher putting down Sonny, a one-shot joke at best, in skits that would be rejected by any self-respecting high school drama coach. "Sonny, I shouldn't have done this sketch. I think I hurt myself," Guest Tony Curtis says after one such embarrassment. "What, your back?" asks Sonny. "Nope, my reputation." The only funny thing was that he was right...
Inside Gallery, the Playboy pattern continues with astonishing fidelity. There is the "Gallery Interview" (with Columnist Jack Anderson, who also happens to be Playboy's interview subject for November), and a foldout "Gallery Girl of the Month." The female caricature that decorates Playboy's joke page is also to be found in Gallery, only this time she wears thigh-high boots instead of long stockings. But the quality of the new magazine's writing and photography is not in the same league with Playboy's; although Gallery's nudes are pretty and provocative, their charms...
Since all the jokes are basically one joke, however, the same question applies to the series as to Bridget's and Bernie's marriage: how long before numbness sets...
...What people call love is impossible except as a joke...between two strangers meeting accidentally...