Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Everyone needs to feel confident about his future. A smile, a joke, a relaxed appearance make others feel better when things are not going right. Reagan gives us these nonmaterial things...
...looks like a zookeeper's prank: a goat dressed in a sweater of angora. But the odd-looking creature that appeared on the cover of the journal Nature last week is no joke. The animal is a crossbreed of two entirely different species, a goat and a sheep. Inevitably, it has been dubbed a geep...
...writer/lyricists Calnek and Alison Taylor have infused some much-needed variety into these overwrought proceedings. For one thing, they've varied their targets of satire a little. There is not, for a wonder, a single and compulsive joke, even after Missionary Position and Witch Wayzup join forces. (You might still think twice about inviting your parents, though.) A certain eclecticism is apparent: Not only do the maidens pray "Boola boola, Eli Yale," but Wayzup laments, "Hath not a witch eyes...
...COURSE, half the fun of witnessing a 136-year-old in-joke is watching its effect on a total outsider. A Pudding audience's attention always flags by the middle of Act II, regardless of its dramatic quality, around about the time that the bottles of champagne from intermission run dry. By the time Queen Foraday and Captain Walter Wallcarpeting got together last night, fully half the audience was busy twisting around to watch Sean Connery's reactions. The Man of the Year had acted dignified and shy at the presentation, softspoken at the intermission press conference...
...artifice of the classic film noir. Pynchon, however, has wit. Sustaining little of the illusion that is vital in, for example, Scarlet Street, Confidentially Yours makes no bones of having ketchup for blood and a pacemaker for a heart. The movie actually seems to be the director's private joke--he is having his cake, and eating it, too, both at the audience's expense...