Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here Fellini insists on the last laugh. If the human condition is a melancholy joke, he implies, then death is its punch line and hilarity the only proper response. The film maker pretends to have no "message" in The Clowns; when an actor asks him the meaning of his film, a bucket drops over the director's head in mid-reply. But absurdity itself is a commentary. It is also the perpetual delight of this indelible, grieving comedy in which the viewers, Pierrots and Augustes all, are the stars...
...jail, two tactical squad members who were standing outside in the parking lot-probably fondling motorcycles-maced a whole cell full of kids though the window for a joke. All down the cellblock word was passed and we began screaming and beating on the metal walls of the cells. And a sergeant came running down the cellblock at that moment, throwing cigarettes-which we had wanted all day-into the cells at us, telling us to calm down and that everything would be all right. And if it were fascism, there would be no cigarettes, and we would...
...This is not a joke. Remember the Brooklyn courthouse and California. Get the janitor out of the building. This is not a joke...
Varney also added the pro scout to the Harvard bleacher. There were always one or two trips to the water fountain each game to shake hands, smile, and joke about the game with the gentlemen in the fedoras. And at the District I playoffs, the press section was filled with stop watches and movie cameras...
...Phil's big joke of the day was yet to come. Mt. Auburn Cemetery is on our tour, and Phil told us that 175 acres were used up and that five remained. "But there's one stipulation on the last five acres," Phil said...