Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bitter joke afterward: What better champion for the phoniest of baseball seasons than the Los Angeles Dodgers? Hooray for Hollywood. Former Dodger Pitcher Don Sutton used to keep a telegram (and his perspective) tacked on his locker, six MILLION BEST WISHES, it read; signed LEE AND FARRAH FAWCETT-MAJORS. Sutton loved to laugh and say: "Nice of their publicist to do it." One wall of the Dodger Stadium office of Tommy Lasorda, the manager who kisses and hugs his players like a game-show host, is a shrine to Frank Sinatra. What better place to hang this year...
...Poor Frazier, 27, who began this split, struck, schizophrenic year as a minor league property of the St. Louis Cardinals, was the losing pitcher in three of the four. The only other three-time loser in a World Series was Claude Williams of the 1919 "Black Sox." The joke was that Frazier was the first to do it unintentionally...
...Another joke: Steinbrenner issued a statement "to sincerely apologize to the people of New York and to fans of the New York Yankees everywhere for the performance of the Yankee team in the World Series." The players found this especially bitter. "Apologize?" Reggie Jackson muttered in dismay. "Apologize...
...arts are supposed to reflect life and love. Film is supposed to be one of the arts. But for most of film history the depiction of sexual acts was forbidden; and in the past decade it has become the province of the porno film, where sex is a dirty joke shared by performer and spectator. There are, of course, reasons beyond prudery for the resistance to explicit sex in mainstream movies. Film is still seen as a form of photography, and thus a medium of reporting: what you see is what there is, naked, without the novel's veils...
...joke about it now," Usher says, "but when I came in, I had to really struggle to find a way not to cut Tory altogether. Then with the new program, we had a way to keep him and the others and let them work hard on their games...