Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constitution is a joke. It gives coloreds and Indians a trivial part in Afrikaaner government and totally ignores the African. They expect to "repatriate" us to our homelands. They strip us of our citizenship and tell us we are now members of some tribal homeland even though we were both here in Soweto. Some of us have never even been to these homelands...
...country's top box office draw, goes off to war, comes back and discovers that nobody loves a 30-year-old brat. He spends too much, drinks too much and wives too much. At the studios, they don't even know his name, except as a joke. He gets older, paunchier and balder, but though few seem to know it, he is still one of the best actors in the business. Then he finds himself in his first Broadway show. It opens, the critics turn handsprings, and that cheeky kid is once more swaggering down the block-Puck...
...Marc J. Sobil '80, chairman of the South House Committee, said yesterday that 'Abrams' action would give ammunition to people who think the assembly is a joke...
...starting Harvard quarterback for two full years, Brown has watched with a combination of amazement and disgust as one Crimson signal-caller after another has fallen with an injury. He said, "The joke in Norwood is whenever I see people they say, 'You got out of there just in time. How did you ever get out of there alive?' It's unbelievable. There's no way to describe how it's happened or why it's happened...
...acrid parody of Puvis de Chavannes's Sacred Grove, into whose pallid scattering of muses he introduced a line of stray moderns from a Paris street, including his stunted self, back turned, urinating on the turf of Parnassus. Lautrec thought the timeless and the eternal a boring joke, and in At the Moulin Rouge he offered the alternative: let the aesthetes dedicate themselves to Higher Thought, but he would stick with gaslight, friends and the fallen soul...