Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just as difficult to lay off sex as the men do, and it can hardly be said that Aristophanes takes a position on the battle of the sexes. But sexism isn't the issue here--the only question is how long you can keep laughing at the oldest joke in the world...
...traveling with Ford believe that they have honestly hit him harder in his first three months than any other President has been hit. Peter Lisagor, veteran Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News, finds the Reeves thesis mystifying. "What shortcomings don't we report? We make every joke in the book at Jerry Ford's expense. We report all his clumsy, well-meaning activities. Every Ford cliche is covered, parsed, dissected. We treat him with slightly amiable disdain." Centrist commentators like James Reston of the New York Times have on occasion criticized Ford unsparingly. After Ford...
...eritire cast has a romp with this show, especially Walter Abel, 76, as a foxy, crusty grandpa. The various Italian accents are an unintentional joke, but no matter. Saturday, Sunday, Monday has the look and feel of a show that will elude critical quibbles and find a large, satisfied audience. T.E. Kalem
...many people think that Ivy football is just an exciting joke, an opinion fostered by the weird games that seem to pop up on the tube every now and then. And television broadcasters are usually at a loss for words when they try to drum up interest in the encounters...
...happy fact, of course, is that a send-up as elaborate as this takes on a delight of its own. The close tie to a real-life political absurdity eventually becomes a hindrance, but The Abbess of Crewe is a wonderful joke while it lasts...