Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Cause," Mayhew said, "it don't exist." It was an old joke, but this time he wasn't laughing...
...like turning up in the middle of some black looneytune where the Duck had all the lines," Herr writes; even he found himself caught up in the chaos, unable to separate himself from the action. "It was that joke at the deepest part of the blackest kernel of fear, and you could die laughing...
...contents, began reading it to his audience. When he reached his own name, he hesitated for a second and then continued to read. Schorr said that if he had found his name on such a list in 1971, he would have "collapsed," but by that time "it was a joke and couldn't be taken seriously...
Leakey was impressed. "When TIME first said they wanted me to pose with Homo habilis, I thought it was a joke," he says...
Performing came easily at first. It began when Cipolla was at Brown, as a joke; she says she didn't know enough about music to be scared to standing in front of an audience and singing songs front of an audience and singing songs she'd written. "I didn't know the music business," she says, "I'd have been a lot more scared if I'd known." Now she enjoys performing, meeting people in audiences, "feeding off the audience's energy," creating something new each time she sings an old song...