Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Minowitz stressed that "summer school is not all somber study." He recalled the time a hopital operating table was found in the Dunster House courtyard. "After looking around for a body, we decided it was a practical joke," he said...
Until now, rock mockery on the grand scale pretty much began and ended with the Beatles. A Hard Day's Night was in part a joke documentary, while Help! functioned as both parody and prophecy of MTV'S slick surrealism, Spinal Tap forfeits the good will associated with the Beatles for something more bizarre and desperate. For all its japes and jokes, the movie is really about exhaustion of the spirit: sitting in a bleak hotel suite at 4 a.m. with the bad taste of last night in the mouth and the feeling that tomorrow will...
...they would participate: I was told the 95 member orchestra was to perform La Mer. Approaching him later with my concerns about such expectations. I was informed that, well of course there are ways to light mathees under their feet, maybe threaten to kill them, ha ha. Well, the joke's on Mr. Sellars--under my leadership the orchestra will never participate in any event associated with him in any way: I know of others that feel the same...
...hungry, he never allowed me to buy him food. He also makes it a rule never to bum cigarettes from his friends--he gets them from strangers or finds them, half-smoked, on the sidewalk. His heroes are Jack Kerouac, Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan, and his favorite joke is "Could you spare a quarter? I have to get my mother out of the pawnshop...
...daughters. Whereupon Jennifer Lyons (Michelle Johnson, whose awkwardness may be attributed in part to the fact that she is a model rather than an actress and in part to the fact that she is required to do about half her scenes nude to the waist) seduces "Uncle Matthew." The joke-if the word can be applied here-is that she is cool and sophisticated, while he gets all flustered and furtive in a supposedly comic way. What the writers want to have taken as a morally balancing conclusion-it is actually just another act of desperation-is supplied...