Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sadat, "To you, and the people you represent, the great people of the government of Israel." Amid gasps, Ford could only say lamely, "Egypt... excuse me." Later the two leaders reportedly laughed politely over the slip. Sadat's press secretary, Tahsin Bashir (see THE PRESS), cracked a barbed joke, "Perhaps President Ford is suggesting that Sadat will be President of Israel as well...
...François Truffaut really have said, as the ads claim, that Werner Herzog is "the most important living director of our time"? It must be either a practical joke or an act of untoward largesse...
...good, how can he permit the death of a young innocent? If he does not exist, death can only be a convocation of worms. This line of reasoning is not new; it runs through dramatic literature from Euripides to Ionesco- life is a dirty joke. But themes do not a playwright make. A grip on the dramatic imagination does, and Gold shows every sign of that. Born in Georgia, he has spent two summers at the Edward Albee Foundation at Montauk on Long Island, N.Y. It will not come as a surprise that Pat Hingle imbues his role with...
...feel like going out with a quote unquote 'beautiful chick' who's eight on a ten scale." He laughed. It was a reference to a Crimson article last year that reported McInally liked to rate women according to their looks. He says now it was all a joke...
HARVARD HAS always prided itself on a policy of "Athletics for All" but the decline of the University's sparse athletic facilities has turned that credo into a joke--or worse, a lie. If anything, the underlying philosophy at Harvard has been "Athletics for All Male Undergraduates...