Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these suggestions can be opposed because they involve too many subjective judgments. But it is a joke when Big Ten commissioner Wayne Duke says he has to "review again" the films of this week's brawl. Now the players think they can get away with some things but not everything; the administrators should make them think they can't get away with anything...
...Your selection is a bad joke in poor taste. Since when were his "shocks" and "surprises" anything but betrayals of our few friends? Under whose leadership was our country worse...
Seriously, why is the Crimson giving this clown so much coverage? Isn't the joke wearing a bit thin? Maybe you ought to pep the story up with an interview with his girl friend. John Q. Johnson...
Wiley's paintings, watercolors and constructions have a cobbled-together air; negligence becomes a creative principle, and the joke is always on culture. Of a period spent in New York, he remarks: "I saw a lot of important work being done and thought, 'That's good; I don't have to do important things. It's like all that has been taken care...
...ballots, one vote was cast for Alighiero Noschese, a television comedian who does a splendid impersonation of Richard Nixon. On another ballot, one elector absentmindedly dropped a love letter into the green wicker voting urn. Most of the time, there were so many astenuti, or abstainers, that the joke went round that the Onorevole Astenuti ("the Honorable Mr. Astenuti") was the most promising candidate...