Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What better symbol of exploited womanhood than the pulchritudinous office worker of jest and lore? Lustful male chauvinist bosses chase her around desks, jealous wives plot her undoing, and her alleged lack of brains is a national joke. But at least, says Washington Post Columnist William Raspberry, she has a job-which is more than can be said for her less well-endowed sisters...
...Republican National Chairman Bob Dole warned that Muskie's speech announcing' his plan "may have greatly damaged the prospects for peace in Viet Nam." Herb Klein, the White House communications director, charged that some of the Democrats "seem to parrot Hanoi's line." Repeating a joke he had heard at a Washington Republican fund-raising dinner, Attorney General John Mitchell declared that Muskie was following a Northern strategy -North Viet Nam's, that is. Vice President Agnew said in a TV interview taped for this week: "There has been a definite undermining, even if unintentional...
...Love, with good actors speaking a script derived from D.H. Lawrence's novel, Russell's direction added that overripeness that characterizes Lawrence's prose. But in The Music Lovers, with only Jackson to uphold the acting and an original script, Russell turned the whole project into a fruity joke. Instead of characters he shows embodied forces or traditions--and essence of sweetness-and-light is simply more bearable than essence of wife-of-a-homosexual...
David Niven is the great joke Englishman of his generation. Dependable, diffident and apparently dim, he wanders on to the screen like a mildly rattled rabbit, occasionally splutters, "I say, jolly good, what?" and hardly ever gets the girl. Niven has played this P.O. Wodehouse stereotype with such consistent charm that audiences usually assume that Niven is like that too. Not at all. In The Moon's a Balloon, his racy autobiography, Niven offers himself as a tough, ambitious international playboy-a well-preserved specimen of that almost extinct species, the gilded barfly...
...graduated from high school with a near-perfect academic record. Her experience on the water is likewise impressive: she has a certificate from the Coast Guard Auxiliary for basic seamanship and has won awards for more than 400 miles of canoeing. Her application to Annapolis "all started as a joke," but Congressman McDonald took it seriously and included her name in his list of nominations...