Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selection process neared an end, Carter's campaign manager Hamilton Jordan smilingly told TIME: "Jimmy ordered a pair of dice sent up to his room last night." That was a joke, of course, but the fact is that though Carter proceeded methodically, in the end, as he said, "it was a subjective analysis" -a matter of chemistry. He liked Mondale's intelligence, self-sufficiency and dry humor. The earnestly handsome Mondale, like Carter, is a Protestant (Presbyterian), but as the Georgian said: "I can't balance a ticket all that many ways...
...waitress by her first name. His naturalness plus the arrangement of the small tables gave the room a homey kitchen atmosphere, though a portion of the back wall was missing. Sipping soup from his spoon, Mondale explained: "...a bomb went off in the john." What I took as a joke, it turned out later, was actually true...
...public. The film's best running gag has Geraldine Chaplin as sharpshooting Annie Oakley, sniping closer, ever closer to Frank Butler, her husband, who must hold her targets steady while fighting against growing fear as she keeps testing the limits of her possibly lethal talent. Altman understates this joke, as he does literally hundreds of others, with his cinematic trademarks: overlapping dialogue and quick-flick cutting of film printed in faded colors, like old snapshots...
...their towers accordingly. As things turned out, the west won, which leaves Occidental in solitary splendor, at least temporarily. Not that it matters: the building boom in Los Angeles is not only around the new towers, but also miles away in Century City and West wood. The theory, urbanologists joke, is that no one ever wanted to go to downtown L.A., so downtown came to them...
When I taught there in the '50s, the instructors at West Point had a joke about the honor system: the Academy had the honor, but the cadets had the system...