Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Pinning down a Barthelme story is obviously a surrealistic experience -rather like trying to explain a Groucho Marx joke to someone who has never heard of Groucho Marx. In desperation Barthelme critics sometimes resort to the comparison gambit, frantically coupling their man with a host of others in the course of one review. The catalogue ranges from Dickens, Swift and Joyce to Kafka, Nabokov and Henry Miller...
...gleefully beat sacred cows on their way to the last roundup (Entertaining Mr. Shane; TIME, Oct. 22, 1965). He was a black-comedy farceur who could dance on a coffin and spit in the corpse's eye (Loot; TIME, March 29, 1968). It has been said that "a joke is a scream for help." In Orton's mouth, a joke was an urbane substitute for murder. He was a wild Wilde...
Insect resistance to second generation pesticides is no joke. Without effective pesticides, the U.S. would lose somes 25-30 percent of its agricultural production, claims the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
...Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto is suing Look magazine for $12.5 million because of its article linking him with the Mafia. That's no joke, but the federal courtroom dissolved in guffaws when the clerk read a deposition from Witness Barry Goldwater, who figured in the case because a key underworld figure claimed acquaintance with him. He had never heard of alleged Mafioso James Fratianno, said the Senator, but the man's photo looked familiar. "In fact, he looks a little like Agnew...
...DIDN'T KNOW whether to be amused or depressed. I tend now to look at the whole thing as a big joke because I find it more enjoyable, and because I hate to contemplate sad realities. So I go to Tremont Street and then to Government Center to yuk it up for three solid hours, but I can't help thinking meanwhile that no matter how hard I laugh, these people are determining our pollicies around the world. They're putting the punch in Nixon's words. They're the reason Nixon can watch a football game and ignore...