Word: joking
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Texas A. & M. University, founded in 1871, is the state's oldest public institution of higher education. Nevertheless, "Aggie jokes" are a Texas staple. (Sample: Did you hear about the Aggie grad who lost his job as an elevator operator? He couldn't remember the route.) But this is no joke: workmen plan to complete a $723,000 restoration of the campus' Academic Building by smearing fermented cow manure across its brick...
...does a Unitarian begin his prayer? Answer: "To whom it may concern . . ." That dog-eared ecclesiastical joke became a real possibility last week, as the Unitarian Universalist Association opened debate on a rather radical proposal: to delete any mention of God from its founding statement of principles. The Rev. Walter Royal Jones Jr., head of the drafting committee, noted that the idea was subject to change, and a Colorado layman protested, "We can never sell this." Nonetheless, the move toward godlessness represented a growing consensus among Unitarian Universalist congregations in the U.S. and Canada...
Director Franklin even plays on the audience's worst expectations about sequels and gets his best laughs by not quite ful filling them. As Norman, Anthony Perkins is knowing, in on the joke, but decently wary about going too far. Meg Tilly, as his young friend, plays the reality principle with winning spunk. Given just a bit more style and drive, Psycho II might have entirely overcome its doubt less cynical origins. But even as it stands, it is a modest, surprisingly agreeable entertainment...
...emigres was a story of two refugees crossing the Atlantic, one headed for America, one headed back to Europe. As their two ships pass, the old friends shout simultaneously, "Are you crazy?" With their cursed gift for awareness, the refugees understood better than anyone on either continent the black joke that history had played upon them...
...suppose I should employ the old mother-in-law joke about mixed feelings. It's like seeing your mother-in-law going over a cliff in your new Cadillac." With that happy-go-lucky quip, L. (for Langhorne) Anthony Motley confirmed to newsmen that he would be replacing Thomas O. Enders as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. The mixed feelings might apply equally well to Thomas R. Pickering, who was unexpectedly nominated last week for the daunting position of U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador. But the good-humored nonchalance was vintage Motley...