Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elected the first black mayor of New Orleans, but Ernest ("Dutch") Morial's first task was to find a job. He had left his state judgeship to run for city hall, and there was no paycheck in sight until his inauguration in May. "This is no joke," grumbled the politician after the election. "I'm looking through the classified ads." Morial is looking no more. Since his plight got some national press, the mayor-to-be has landed a fellowship at Harvard's Institute of Politics, a once-a-week teaching assignment at the University...
Sometimes the play slides into fantasy, too: the apartheid rules are so ridiculous at times they can only be treated as a bitter joke. An episode with a talking toilet that is reserved for whites only is funny, but there is an acid note somewhere not too far in the background...
...Krim says, U.A. suffered all sorts of indignities, including the imposition by Transamerica of a computerized profit-forecasting system that Krim considered "a joke" in the instinctive movie business. But most galling of all were the consequences of the fact that under Transamerica's umbrella, U.A. had become an "invisible company," with no stock exchange listing of its own. Although shares of other moviemakers such as Columbia and 20th Century-Fox have been shooting up on the strength of box-office hits, Transamerica's stock has hung listlessly in the $13-$16 range. The U.A. executives...
Dann is not exaggerating, and NBC is listing so badly in the ratings that the joke on Wall Street is, "What's the difference between the Titanic and NBC? Answer: the Titanic had an orchestra." Indeed, the malaise is so well diagnosed that NBC itself carries jokes about its incompetence. When President Carter's translator flubbed in Poland, Johnny Carson told his Tonight show audience that "later on Carter's Polish interpreter will be out here to explain why he was just made head of programming at NBC." Though NBC was second for much...
...spite of all that, Ray has moved to Manhattan, where she is studying acting with Lee Strasberg and readying a nightclub act. She plans to tell a joke about Richard Nixon's effort to replace Rose Mary Woods. He wanted, it seems, "someone who could erase 120 words per minute...