Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Osservatore Romano. Well, all the Vatican is abuzz with news of the latest scandal to hit St. Peter's Square. No, Yasser Arafat has not been made a Cardinal. No, a Swiss Guard has not run away with Koo Stark. (That's just my little joke.) Instead, some movie people have made a big expensive picture about, get this, an American priest who finances the papacy with money he got from the Mafia. He also has a real steamy love affair with a French lady who is studying to be a nun. And, on top of that, this...
...even passed the unemployment hot potato. Says Brown: "It is the crudest kind of political joke. Celeste and the policies of the '70s have created those unemployment lines." Possibly, but the punch line is that Brown is trailing...
...joke, it drew great guffaws. "The biggest moneymaker in Hollywood last year was Colombia," quipped Johnny Carson during the 1981 Oscar awards ceremony. "Not the studio-the country." There is considerable truth in the jest: though used throughout the U.S., cocaine remains an especially apt symbol for the affluent Southern California lifestyle. If John De Lorean's alleged shipment of 220 lbs. had indeed made its way into the Los Angeles marketplace, it would have found buyers...
Much to the amusement of several thousand students, alumni and faculty members. Weinstein finished his speech and got another ovation. What followed, though, was unplanned. Principal Gaspar Fabriquante, obviously embarrassed by Weinstein's presentation, tried to make a joke of it. "There must have been something in the water he drank." Fabriquante explained. At which point Weinstein, seated on stage, tell off his chair as it in a dead faint. Everyone watching knew it was an act--everyone that is except for the Nobel laureate alumnus seated behind Weinstein. "The guy jumped up and started frantically examining Anders to make...
...League, urban exiles from the liberated upper-middle single females living in Manhattan and afraid of sex will understand it perfectly. Anyone older or younger, male, married or from the suburbs will spend at least some of their reading time hoping to be let in on the joke...