Word: joking
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Yale's A Bartlett Giamatti, by contrast, has never been a a joke. He's a pure and simple fan--an inveterate Red Sox (and Yale, of course) booster Upon announcement of his appointment in 1977, he joked All lever wanted to be president of was the American League...
...were disturbed by Michael Miller's "Tying the Knot" in November 8's Crimson. Mr. Miller need not have made his joke using actual people. Some of us know Cintra Eglin. All of us would hate to have had sport made of our personal lives to no purpose. Mr. Miller exceeded the bounds of good taste. David G. Mandelbaum '80, J.D. '83 Kathy A. Coons '80, J.D. '83 Richard Becker, Princeton '80, J.D. '83 Steven G. Poskanzer, Princeton...
...MacNeil has noticed politics bending more and more under the weight of television and its big brother, money. Advertising that verges on libel has become the norm, he points out, adding, "The spending of such huge sums on congressional campaigns gives a grimmer and darker meaning to the old joke: 'We have the best Congress-that money can buy.' " Despite these ominous trends, MacNeil still reacts with undiminished excitement to an election. This year, after a voting night watch until 2 a.m. and facing a breakfast appointment followed by a day of press conferences, MacNeil found...
...joke. White, 42, the state's conservative attorney general who has a penchant for populist rhetoric, drubbed Clements, 53% to 46%. The next day, Clements was as vividly candid as ever: "We not only got beaten at the line of scrimmage, but we probably needed another quarterback. When you take a shellacking, you lick your wounds and come back another...
Officials at the school in Boulder, Colo., were not perturbed over the students' joke. Arthur Ingraham, director of food services, this week said that the sculpture more "reflected a spoof on the food service" rather than a harsh criticism...