Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easily escape themselves). Puck, we realize, would make a dream host on The Love Connection, and the rude mechanicals, rehearsing "most obscenely and courageously," would surely be an instant hit on prime time. We recognize, too, that the malaprop artists' confusion of "paragon" and "paramour" is not an idle joke; the idealizing of love is as old as broken hearts...
Before my mind could locate the most appropriate New Jersey joke for the moment, ("logically impossible" "is your nose clogged or something?") my memory flashed to my last canoeing experience, at summer camp 10 years...
...very bizarre," says Caruso. She moved out of the house soon after discovering bullet holes in Stevens' room. According to Caruso, Stevens had a collection of mannequins, X-rated videos, videotaping equipment and a secret room hidden behind a moving bookcase. Caruso and her boyfriend, she recalls, used to joke that Stevens was the Green River killer. One day she even asked Stevens about it. "Don't start that rumor," he reportedly answered. "People around here think I'm weird enough...
...beautiful friendship. But are they aware that falling in like can be as dangerous as falling in love? Reiner, who based the film partly on his life after being divorced from actress Penny Marshall, thinks he knows: "People say, 'Vive la difference,' but it's more like a cruel joke created by God. Men and women desperately want to be with each other, but at the same time they can't stand each other and don't understand each other...
...tramped on through the undiscovered country, his eye was suddenly transfixed by the sight beside the old cattle track of four Eveready size-D batteries lying in the dust. It was as if a passing whaleship had answered Ahab: "The white whale? Yeah, we killed him yesterday." An old joke. Toad suffered a deflation...