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Word: joking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gelber has been heckled, jeered, and, according to the candidate, "almost lynched" because of a Jesuit joke he made in the predominantly Irish-Catholic South Boston neighborhood but every so often he wins someone over...

Author: By Michael W. Hirschorn, | Title: Michael Gelber Hates Harvard: Mayoral Hopeful Makes His Case | 10/4/1983 | See Source »

...dozen phrases meaning "to vomit." This is no mistake. Perhaps more than any other group in recent decades, the youth of the 1980s revel in bad taste. For the generation that grew up with Saturday Night Live and Animal House, nothing is funnier than a well told puke joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Question Of Taste | 9/27/1983 | See Source »

Prof. Mumford, while listening to the final hour of the America's Cup on the radio, added that the Australian-American rivalry in the department has been "a bit of a joke" around the office for the past few years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Australians Celebrate, Wave Native Colors in Victory | 9/27/1983 | See Source »

...pretty sarcastic and maybe a little haughty," but its weirdly resonant images ("I hear the U.S.S.R. will be open soon/ As vacationland for lawyers in love") give it a power that lasts longer than any punch line. The song is full of laughs, but it is not a joke, just as the album, full of ominous broodings about personal loss and international nightmare, dances clear of being oppressive with its melodic lightness and buoyancy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jackson's Day in Court | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

...squint is the weather-beaten humor of a career woman who wants an emergency jolt of motherhood; William Hurt's eyes move like restless laser beams; Tom Berenger's search the room in masked desperation, trying to crib emotions from his quicker, less guarded friends. No joke or gesture is forced in these performances. The eight star actors deserve one big Oscar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: You Get What You Need | 9/12/1983 | See Source »

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