Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People care very much that he's not around, that he's taking them for granted," Holtzman said of Celler. "His longevity itself has created a tremendous dissatisfaction within the district. He has no office here -- his statement that his home is his office is a joke...
...label Carwile's remarks as "the cheap shot of an insensitive politician." The councilman was unrepentant. Dismissing Spong as an "ecclesiastical lickspittle," he added: "When I look at some spiritually anemic preachers, I think of embalming fluid." Inevitably, Carwile's tasteless demagoguery led to a sick joke. The councilman was not being macabre, the snicker went, he was just trying to drum up some business for Mayor Thomas Bliley Jr. Bliley is one of the city's leading morticians...
...evades numerous intriguing issues: Rigg has a potentially interesting madman for a father. He causes chaos in this wonderland of technological medicine, but he assures us that in Mexico, where he lives almost as a hermit, he gets on very well. Cynical laugh from the sophisticated audience, end of joke...
...Shapiro's Groove Tube 2 satirizes by rendering the subliminal visible, by making graphic the fears and the personal and institutional dishonesty which everywhere stultify the day-to-day process of living. If the above joke seems in bad taste, it is because Nixon and the war are, themselves, obscene. What Shapiro lacks in propriety, he attempts to make up in truthfulness. The result is an exciting, though certainly not flawless work...
...audience last week that he was being made a whipping boy for an inhibited society. Of his attempt to mail his magazines from Blue Ball, Pa., and Intercourse, Pa., cited by the courts as evidence of his pandering intent, Ginzburg said, "At the worst, it was a very bad joke. But to send a man to prison for a bad joke is hardly what the founding fathers envisioned as a free and robust press." New York University Law Professor Norman Dorsen, author of several books on civil liberties, agreed: "The law has been applied unfairly to one person. Nobody, including...