Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Actor Robert Redford's offer to buy movie rights to the book for fear the Hollywood version would be, well, too Hollywood. They were right. The first draft of Writer William Goldman's script was excellent in parts, but generally superficial. "It read like a Henny Youngman joke-book of one-liners," Bernstein complained to a friend. "Harry Rosenfeld [Post metropolitan editor] came out looking like Phil Silvers, and Ben Bradlee became Walter Pidgeon. It was just too shallow." So Bernstein and Esquire Contributing Editor Nora Ephron, his sometime roommate, have rewritten large chunks of the script...
...programs to get the nation out of trouble, in the knowledge that they could all too easily make errors that would result in an even longer and deeper recession, a reignition of inflation or possibly both. In a way, the situation resembles an especially bitter good news-bad news joke. The good news is that, despite everything, inflation is expected to lessen and the slump is likely to end before it flowers into a genuine depression. The bad news is that those are the only two bits of good news...
...keeps getting worse. I might recommend it as a symbol of the world in general, in fact--except that I don't want to sound discouraged so soon before New Year's. So maybe it is more like President Ford: it started off as amiable idiocy, but the joke is wearing fast...
...overkill of advertisements makes the "heartbreak of psoriasis" sound like something of a joke. But psoriasis is no laughing matter to those who are afflicted by it. The disease, which may result from a genetic defect, causes red, scaly eruptions-mainly on the scalp, elbows, knees, back and buttocks -and untold misery to its victims. In the U.S. alone, some 5 to 8 million psoriasis sufferers spend an estimated $1 billion a year in their search for relief...
What happened? Did Satch use the hapless Newton squad as a tune-up for the Volunteer Basketball tournament this weekend? Was this a practical joke by somebody in the scheduling office...