Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This year each member of the Class of '74 received instead an advance copy of the year's first Lampoon. Some sort of cruel joke, surely...
...Whitmore has mastered that perfect timing: "We've got the best politicians in the country [pause] that money can buy." Not surprisingly, Rogers' political sallies have a particular savor for a Washington audience: "When you straddle an issue, it takes a lot more explaining." Or, "My little jokes don't hurt anybody, but when Congress makes a joke, it's a law." The biggest laugh of the evening erupted on his comment about Calvin Coolidge: "When he was Vice President, he done the right thing-he kept his mouth shut...
...planned this to torment me,' " a homosexual masseur protests. "He stood on the deck, holding a plastic lemon at elaborate arm's-length. 'You couldn't possibly buy artificial lemon juice, someone left it here, it's a bad joke...
Pale Contrast. Friends to whom Tauber recited such sentences at lunch urged him to show the prospectus to a publisher; and Workman Publishing Co., a small Manhattan firm, brought it out as a booklet indistinguishable in appearance from a real prospectus. The joke is now earning a modest profit, which Tauber intends to donate to war relief. The first printing of 10,000 copies sold out almost immediately, and Workman has ordered a second printing of 10,000. The publisher has also begun advertising the parody with appropriately sedate "tombstone" ads in the New York Times. The ads make...
...home in a Kantian world where space and time obey the appellate court of perception. A woman enters a Manhattan cafeteria and sees Hitler. Later, after her death, she herself is seen, strolling Broadway. A mischievous editor sends an obscure philosopher love letters from a mythical heiress-and the joke blossoms into a great tragedy. A chimney sweep is knocked on the head and becomes uncomfortably omniscient; another knock and he is back to imbecility...