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Word: joking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...That joke involves an element of true confession. The fact is that Arok isn't too bright. Without close and constant supervision, Arok would gladly vacuum the dog, pour the coffee on the rug or puree the goldfish in the Cuisinart. "For me to say that he saves me work would be ridiculous," admits Skora. "Real household androids are at least 15 years away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Illinois: A Better Robot? | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

DIED. Totie Fields, 48, talk-show comedian who staged a comeback to the nightclub circuit following the amputation of her left leg in 1976; of a heart attack; in Las Vegas. She used to joke about her 4-ft. 11-in., 190-lb. figure: "Obese, hefty, overweight, rotund. I never knew there were so many ways to say fatty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 14, 1978 | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

...somewhat justified)--animalistic, incredibly horny, crude beer-swillers run amok in the tundra. Former devotees of the magazine will recognize the scenario of the film from a sporadic series of Dartmouth frat stories that ran around 1972 or 1973. So what we have here is the Ivy League joke carried out on a fiendishly broad level. Boy, those 'Poonies sure know how to get their licks...

Author: By Andrew Multer, | Title: College the Way It Should Have Been | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...higher banality: psychobabble, discussions of creativity, even home decoration when money is no problem. Despite advance word that this was to be this deservedly respected writer-director's first entirely serious film, a faint hope stirs. Perhaps he is merely setting up the biggest Woody Allen joke of them all, since this kind of talk, and film making, is one of his best satirical subjects. Alas, the snapper never comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Darkest Woody | 8/7/1978 | See Source »

...Lampoon combination, this film combines bad taste, grossness, and total absurdity to make a screamingly funny film. John Belushi, of Saturday Night Life Live fame, goes absolutely bonkers in this tale of a reject frat at an uptight campus in the early '60s. If it's a gross, sophomoric joke, it's in this film, but it's still funny as hell. Definitely worth seeing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILM: Bruce, The Band and Poonies | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

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