Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Around twelve o'clock the First Snow's joke became clear. Stragglers from Saturday night parties found the way home quietly romantic, streetlights acknowledging in amused yellow beams that they, too knew the joke. The First Snowmen were built after the First Snowfights, and snow angel-makers stripped off wet jeans to slide into warmer repose...
...joke lasted but a short while Sunday morning. Early risers smiled at brunch, laughed while the ploughs and shovels, skis and boots, tires and sneakers shoved and pulled at the First Snow. Trees split and bushes collapsed in muted cracking and the initial wonder of the First Snow changed to laughter and smiles at the silent white joke...
Entrepreneurs cooperate more obviously in the never-ending battle not to run out of change. Baybanks, a mixed blessing on arrival, has become "a running joke," Higgins says. Obviously, prospective munchers can't buy if they're broke, but "after you've given change for four new, crisp twenties in a row, what are you supposed to do with the fifth?" Higgins laments. "People can't seem to grasp that: we've had people spit in our faces, throw coffee at us, when we refused a sale or wouldn't give change." The 400 or so customers who pass through...
...finding the recession worse than his economists had anticipated, and being unable to silence his quarreling foreign policy makers, offhandedness was not enough. Among columnists, critics were getting sharper and sympathizers uneasy, often a portent of troubles to come. Anthony Lewis called the conduct of foreign policy "a national joke"; William Safire regretfully accused Reagan of losing touch with reality. Like many survivors of Nixon's Washington, Safire was concerned about a tendency, new to Reagan but not to Presidents in general, to blame the press when in trouble. Reagan is remarkably free of sustained vendettas...
...office window. Think of jean-and-workshirt-bedecked Yalies pouring out of Skull and Bones to spend their dividend checks on grass and anti-war ads in the New York Times. And win this one for Consciousness II.CrimsonNevin I. ShalltHENRY A. KISSINGER and Yale President BART GIAMATTI joke with Kissinger's son, DAVID, a junior at Yale, at a football game. Henry Kissinger went to Harvard...