Word: joking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...swimming pool billed as Africa's largest. To shuttle between his international chain of palaces, Mobutu uses the national airline, Air Zaire, as a personal transport service. His high-handed habit of commandeering planes at a whim has made Air Zaire's timetables something of a joke. When Mobutu visited West Germany last spring, he took the line's 747 for himself and a DC-10 for his wife, leaving Air Zaire suddenly without its two largest planes...
Dead Serious. Now engineers have devised a solution that sounds like the punch line of some sort of Italian joke: rubber dams. But the sponsors of the plan-Pirelli, the famous tire company, and Furlanis, a construction firm-are dead serious about it. They propose installing hollow, expandable dams made of rubber-coated fabric across the three channels. The dams, which would measure from 1,698 ft. to 3,000 ft. in length, would lie on the seabed, held firmly in place by steel cables anchored to concrete pilings. Most of the time they would remain flat, allowing ships...
...upcoming show, Rhoda suspects that she's pregnant. The script called for her to say to the doctor: "I'm 33-I've just got under the wire, huh?" Valerie complained, "Hey, people get married at 33. What do we say to them?" The joke was expunged...
...some quarter-tone creation uncorrupted by respectability or qualifying compromises. They'd both have to meet the same standards, though. They could be lumped together, and if the juxtaposition sounded funny--Ives wrote a great piano trio with a second movement labeled TSIAJ, for "The Scherzo is a Joke"--the joke was on neither the popular tunes nor the stringent lyricism, but on the pedants who'd have liked to keep them separate. When Ives was joking, his music could be something like a Roy Lichtenstein painting of a comic book frame, mocking people's belief that 'art' should...
Harvard is no exception to the national trend, and it seems that the left's joke about Harvard--that it's the training ground for the nation's ruling class--is now being taken seriously. People new talk of their post-graduation life in terms of Washington and Wall Street, and view Harvard as a good place to study because it will provide valuable contacts for their afterlife of politics or finance...