Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lamented, "This is my wedding day, and he's stuck out there." Said Debbie Harris of Show Low, Ariz., about her husband, Petty Officer Kenneth Harris: "It's awful hard being able to see him, but not see him." Through the waiting crowd rippled a common joke: "The crew must have asked the captain to head for the nearest...
...service is a byproduct of A T & T's recent Government-mandated breakup: the deregulators ordered local telephone companies to give up their monopoly on their sponsored Dial-It services (time, weather, Dial-A-Joke and so on). High Society was one of 21 enterprises picked by lottery to get a piece of the New York Telephone action, and has since bought two more of the numbers from other lottery winners...
...dealt a bad hand last week. The dealer, ironically, was the National Association of Broadcasters, a trade organization that usually touts the future of TV in royal flush terms. At a press conference during its annual convention, the N.A.B. released a study that resembled an elaborate good-news/bad-news joke. The good news: Americans are watching as much television as before. The bad news: they like it a whole lot less. "This study is a little daring for a trade association to reveal to its members," said a candid but not contrite N.A.B. President Eddie Fritts...
...easy being Norman Mailer. What other writer would have to soft-pedal a birthday? He braces for the approach of his publication dates, having a pretty fair idea of how the critical articles in response will be organized: "The standard joke of this household is, 'On what page do they get to the review [see box]?' In other words, the life always comes first...
...respect that the Lampoon has shown us by depicting Africans as what appears to be smiling spear-chuckers, putting women on stone altars for sacrifice, and carrying white men (Bwanas?) around on thrones as if they were kings or gods, as being nothing more than just another cultural, joke, or perhaps a simple outlet for the divergent humor of some member of the Lampoon staff, then we are allowing a painful history of cruel persecution through colonization, degradation, and outright humiliation to be abused once again. We just can't allow people to go on ignoring the vital lessons which...