Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never expected to come to Radcliffe. I applied as a joke. I even had eraser holes in my application...
...because she was in love with their jelly. The waitress behind the counter at Tommy's made a point of calling over to Jackie and Carle to ask them if they wanted the last of the grapefruit juice, and later she came over to talk and joke around with them...
There is, in case you haven't figured it out yet, not much going on. Therefore I will tell you a Soyuz joke. Actually it's an old Space Age joke, but when all that faded there was no occasion to tell it--until this week, that...
EVERYONE CAN REMEMBER times when they have sat around late at night with a few friends and invented some brilliant plot that they thought was absolutely hysterical. Most people never write that letter or go ahead with that stunning practical joke because the next morning no one understands it very well, and it's even a little embarrassing. Mike Nichols's newest movie, a light-headed, stale farce called The Fortune, could have been born during just such a private all-nighter, at some point when Nichols, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson got so clap-happy that they filmed their...
...unhappy truth was accurate. If he conceived The Fortune as homage/satire about the vaudeville era, he forgot what Mel Brooks proved in Young Frankenstein: that the best way to poke fun at past cinematic formulas is still to take them seriously. He gave us buffoonery but it was a joke we didn't catch. The grimy, bourgeois wit of his earlier films was more perceptive and more easily shared...