Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...power in ports of call from Cuba to Mauritius. Although larger than the U.S. Navy in numbers of warships, the Soviet surface fleet still lacks anything as sophisticated as a U.S. aircraft carrier. Soviet nuclear-powered submarines are thought to give off so much radiation that Soviet sailors morbidly joke that members of the northern fleet are easily identifiable be cause they glow in the dark. During the past eight months, one nuclear sub foundered in deep water off the Siberian pen insula of Kamchatka and a second was disabled off the U.S. East Coast when the craft...
...intriguing title is not a joke, nor is it an attempt to reach the Garfield market. It represents a searching effort to determine why a band of Parisian printers bludgeoned to death a lot of cats, notably including the master printer's wife's pet, then subjected several of the animals to a mock trial and hanged them. More important, why did these printers of the 1730s think the butchery was so comic that they guffawed as they re-enacted it in pantomime more than 20 times? Was it sadism? Mass hysteria? Demonic ritual...
...18th century it was considered chic to spend an evening at the local lunatic asylum, laughing at the inmates. In the 20th century you can be asked to leave a dinner party for making a joke about the mentally disturbed or deficient. Perhaps the kindest thing to be said about our century is that it has managed to make this modest improvement in manners. Perhaps the kindest way to describe Crackers is to say that it is informed by the older sensibility. Louis Malle's remake of the unfunny 1958 Italian comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street has gained...
...direct contrast to the sanity of "Real World" is the psychotic "Diane," Beginning as a love song with the narrator picking up a young girl, the song brings in--almost like a throwaway or sick joke--the horribly nasty line, "But I think I'll just rape you and kill you instead," and then proceeds into a strangely impassioned chorus. To pass off this unsettling song as a sick joke is too easy, and moreover, it would belie the fundamental message of the rest of the album. Rather, this song is both a frightening and frightened recognition of the violence...
There was one team, however, that Hunter couldn't touch. Ever, Year after year, the guys got really psyched, went in, held their own for a while, and then lost to the "B" varsity form Power Memorial High School. The joke always went around that the "A" varsity was playing at Madison Square Garden and couldn't play us, but the fact was, the Power folks were too nice to be realistic and send in their...