Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rest is history. 1342, if I may be so momentarily vain. Everybody should write to (Being Witheld), and to Heather, the Tuesday-night Bates receptionist and phone-charmer, who also lives on the second floor, and hence prompted me to coin the silly disco-oriented joke, "Heather on the second floor," when I called her asking to talk to (Being Witheld). (Being Witheld) is my only correspondent since a Somerville woman threatened several years ago to mail me her body one appendage at a time until I stopped writing this column...
...make each line or attitude multilevel," Martin explains. "Each word is expressed with my entire body. I feel like I'm living the joke." And killing his audiences. Martin says he is looking for "cat handcuffs." His tabby-a tiger-stripe he calls Dr. Carleton P. Forbes-has amassed $3,000 worth of "cat toys" by filching checks from Steve's mailbox. But alas, Dr. Forbes has escaped ... to Catalina. On a catamaran. Audiences invariably groan as this inventive tale turns into mushy vaudeville. Wide-eyed pause. "You think comedy is ... pretty?" leers Martin. He catches them catnapping...
...religion, with accents on fervent prayer and self-denial: "I know they are dissatisfied, because I keep them dissatisfied!" In the meantime, he has delusions of grandeur and "a weakness for women." To his people, he remains a holy man, but to the audience, Jero is a fast-talking, joke-cracking observer of the endless silliness that is life...
...Whatever the brothers' relations, the White House may instinctively understand that Billy in certain ways is good for Jimmy. One of the most flattering rumors ever circulated about George Washington had it that, in order to warm up his soldiers while crossing the Delaware, he told a dirty joke. Jimmy Carter seems incapable of performing such a humanizing service for himself. In an odd way, Billy does it for him. Billy compensates for his brother's sweet-eyed psalm-singing and persnicketiness; Billy drinks beer on Sunday morning instead of going to church; he is Huck Finn against...
Book thieves, take notice--an inscription in some University library books warning lightfingered students of possible prison sentences is no joke...