Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help me politically, it didn't help me financially, it didn't help my career. So therefore, what? If it seems mysterious to people, it'll just have to be mysterious." (In earlier interviews, Hart has vaguely attributed the age change to a family joke...
...telling his audience that he had received a wire from his father: "Dear Jack, Don't buy one more vote than necessary. I'll be damned if I'll pay for a landslide." Frank Mankiewicz suggests that Hart could turn the age-change issue into a joke simply by beginning a speech with a statement of fact and then, after pausing a beat, adding, "I'm as certain of that as I am of my own age." Hart's arduous climb from restless small-town boy to presidential contender has sharpened and toughened...
...Hart had used Mondale's pile of endorsements to make the former Vice President look beholden and dull. Last week, however, when Hart was endorsed by disparate bigwigs-South Carolina Senator Ernest Rollings, former House Speaker Carl Albert, a trio of liberal Los Angeles Congressmen-Mondale could only joke about the irony...
Most humor has a target, and no one (even a Martian) completely enjoys being the butt of a joke. But unless Americans come to terms with the realities of human nature and of life within a chromatic culture, they will simply stifle a rich source of national humor without promoting a genuine and good natured appreciation of human differences...
...That's the joke," he says. "Here's Pete Rose at 75 still playing first base, and panning over to the commissioner's box, on his 588th monthly extension, there's Bowie Kuhn .. ." He laughed, something he has been doing increasingly. "I guess as the wine runs down, it does get sweeter," he said. -By Tom Callahan