Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seems to be somebody's ghastly, naive mistake. L. Rust Hills is a writer of witty essays in Playboy and Esquire magazines on the foibles and disorders of modern life. His publishers try to give the impression on the dust jacket that Hills is having a bit of a joke here with his talk of "Moral Virtue," the kind of joke you tell with plenty of broad winks and an occasional leer. It's just as well for them--who, these days, is going to buy a hortatory treatise on ethics that first appeared in Playboy...
...SPEILVOGEL," cries Alexander Portnoy from the psychiatrist's couch, "this is my life, my only life, and I'm living it in the middle of a Jewish joke!" But what Portnoy overlooks in his complaint is the fact that there is another person trapped in that joke-Sophie Portnoy, the archetypal castrating Jewish mother, standing over her little boy with a stainless steel bread knife when he refuses to eat. The joke is a funny one, no doubt-and by elevating a stand-up routine into a comic art form, Philip Roth gave popular American culture the definitive stereotype...
...were dropped, but the sect did not become notably friendlier. "Black p.r." and "noisy investigations" (wellpublicized inquiries into the motives and backgrounds of critics) continue. Hubbard once spoke darkly of handling enemies via "Auditing Process R2-45," meaning a .45 bullet through the head, but this was just a joke, say his followers, and there are no accusations of any such terminal excommunications...
...expanded?his original conception of the film. He realized, for example, that Goldman was not entirely wrong when he perceived at the outset that the film required a leavening note of newspaper humor and camaraderie. The journalistic world is one where power asserts itself in human terms?with a joke or an epithet. It is also one where the troops can express their mildly mutinous feelings in a similarly easy manner. It seems to invite the visual treatment Pakula employed in the newsroom sequences, which is bright, open, healthy. That, in turn, makes even more vivid the sequences in which...
...anxiously looking up seconds before it was scheduled to go on. She unconsciously willed audience reaction to every funny line or song by laughing or clapping just a little before they did. Two musicians in black tuxedos from the pit orchestra joined her. They collapsed in hysterics at every joke even though they've seen all the performances...