Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...anything, show anything, to churn a stomach and raise some neck hair. The trend started several years back with Night of the Living Dead, wherein marauding zombies dined on freshly slain humans. The movie was made on lo cation around Pittsburgh - that sounds like the first line of a joke but it's a fact - employing local actors and a great many spare parts from nearby butcher shops. The movie won a campy-seedy reputation and turned a nice profit. Imitations have ranged from Andy War hol's Frankenstein and Dracula lampoons to The Texas Chainsaw Murders...
...goal of Henry Kissinger's recent Middle East trip, the Secretary allegedly told newsmen, was "to rescue Rabin from Peres." That may not have been exactly a joke. Israel's soft-spoken but highly articulate Defense Minister Shimon Peres, 51, the second most important man in the Israeli Cabinet, has emerged as his country's leading hawk on the crucial question of how to negotiate with the Arabs. He is thus a man that Premier Yitzhak Rabin (not to mention Kissinger) must reckon with. Peres almost defeated Rabin for the premiership last April, and is a plausible...
Pentagon officials joke that "the Persian Gulf will sink under all the arms that it is buying." There are growing fears, however, that this amassing of aims in the Gulf area could trigger an accidental war. The Arab-Israeli conflict aside, there are bitter rivalries between the neighboring states and sheikdoms. Aryan Iran, even though it is a Moslem country, has never been fully trusted by its Semitic Arab neighbors. Experts do not rule out a future conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Tehran's support of the Kurdish rebellion against Baghdad, as well as longstanding frontier disputes, has already...
...more sensitive than he ever could, or should, be. Jackie turns him down and departs for Acapulco with her rich investor. George is left on a small canyon hilltop with a beautifully sad Paul Simon melody underscoring his dubious desolation, inviting sympathy at what should have been the richest joke...
...legs. He has to barrel through traffic on his little wheeled platform, propelling himself with his hands and hitching onto the rear bumpers of other vehicles for extra speed. The whole notion for such a sequence would seem like the creation of some furiously cynical screenwriter sneaking a practical joke over on his producer. The credit, however, must go to James Mills, author of the bestselling novel from which this movie has been extracted who actually used this scene as a centerpiece...