Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE IS NOTHING funny about a Polaroid Land camera. But if you want a joke, make one 20 feet high, put it in the middle of the Cambridge Common, and get a dozen people to dance and chant in a circle around it. Enlarging the mundane is an old formula for humor...
...year ago, women's basketball at Harvard University was a joke. Neither the players nor the coach took the team seriously, and as a result, they waltzed their way through a dismal season...
...show is expectedly uneven (who can keep an audience rolling in the aisles for two hours?), but for every attempted joke and gesture that falls flat, the players come back with one that tickles. A series of poorly received commercials condoning racism were retrieved with a switch-around antagonism: a black dude named Jim Brown comes out and becons the T.V. audience to give these poor untalented white folks a job. Pointing to a group of uncoordinated, spastic white people in the corner of the stage, Jim Brown moans: "They can't do nothin', there. They can't boogie, they...
...report in yesterday's New York Times said that after a political argument with an Indian freshman, two white students put on sheets and pillowcases and "confronted (him) in what they insist was 'a joke'." They then took off the sheets and hung one of them in a dormitory hall...
...Vassar student who asked not to be identified said yesterday the two students claimed their action was a joke and that they had not intended any racial overtones...