Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Everyone stood around and looked at Cleaver's groin. There was something very funny about it all, and half a suspicion that it was all a joke...
...putting a damper on things. But in Poland and Romania as well, a lot of people I spoke with this summer seemed to find the "Eternal Brotherhood With the Soviet Union" propaganda approach somewhat heavyhanded. A Polish student in Gdansk (known in history books as Danzig) told me a joke that is currently making the rounds among his friends. An orange is rolling on the Polish-Soviet border, and two border guards, one Russian and one Polish, find it simultaneously. The Pole claims that it is on the Polish side of the border, therefore his; the Russian insists that...
...SIZWE BANZI and The Island are Kani and Ntshona. Kani and Ntshona laugh, cry, joke, pray, confide, console, with the unforced naturalness of the neighbors next door, but glow in our dreams and memories even weeks after the performances with a stunningly vivid brilliance. It is as if we had swallowed whole a complete vocabulary of previously undiscovered emotions, gestures, and facial and body expressions. A particular situation, the gesture of a friend, can, at some of the most unexpected moments, trigger the memory of an image or scene from the plays, much as we are suddenly reminded by smells...
John Kani held and played with the audience through his 45-minute monlogue with the comic sense and gyrating energy of a stand-up comic. But his jokes are corny, deliberately innocent of the contrivance of real jokes or comic routines. And we laugh because he laughs, that infectious, throaty, all-teeth laugh that quakes from his chest. He wants us to be happy, with the urgent eagerness of a child wanting to share a joke with his mother...
Says Rossi: "It seemed incredible that they could have overlooked such a basic point-that photographers use telephoto lenses. It seemed like a huge joke." Italy's Domenica del Corriere and The Netherlands' Nieuwe Revue last week gave their readers Rossi's photos. Paris-Match also purchased the pictures but claimed that it did not have the space to run them. Some cynics suggested, however, that Match's restraint might have something to do with the French Foreign Ministry...