Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Groaning Buffets. The Cuban welcome could hardly have been warmer. There were frozen daiquiris at the airport and buffets groaning with fresh lobster, shrimp, glazed red snapper and other delicacies that ordinary Cubans seldom see. Premier Fidel Castro himself showed up to chat, joke and sign autographs for the businessmen...
...running gag in which a globetrotting diplomatic nun (Melina Mercouri) periodically uses her briefcase radio-phone to coach Jackson in Kissingeresque Realpolitik falls rather flat. And the Gerald Ford figure is a football-playing nun (Anne Meara) who is always-guess what?-falling and bumping into things. That joke has long since been exhausted in TV sketches...
Giangreco said yesterday that he started the company with a group of friends last December to publish a few copies of The Fake Paper as "a little joke on The Real Paper." The first parody was "so obscenely successful" that the company had to print an extra 6000 copies to meet the popular demand. The group has published 55,000 copies of The Tucson...
Among the spinoffs of the Fox housing proposal (for God's sake, don't stop reading now, there's a joke in the next clause of this sentence)--aside from the accidental relocation of the entire Harvard Square vixen population to North Cambridge by a well-lubricated Buildings and Grounds workman who misunderstood his foreman's instructions--is the Strange Brew Coffeehouse, which opened last Sunday night on the fourth floor of Hilles library...
...unity in the nation's often peckishly insular Hispanic factions. "It will help Latinos realize how much they have in common," says Co-Managing Editor Jose Ferrer, "their roots, achievements and problems." Adds Publisher Lopez: "Nuestro will reflect a viable culture in which God is not a joke, in which families have meaning and strength, in which the heart holds as much essential information as the head...