Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...green sports jacket, journalist-gray pants and one of those knit ties cut straight across at the bottom. Chomping on a cigar--unlit, naturally--he was riding the down escalator into a hotel lobby, jabbering at a bunch of other Washington newspapermen. Then came an opportunity for a joke...
...Cummings is a large, loquacious, twinkly man who is never very far from a joke or an ironic aside. "Human folly," he says, "guarantees the perpetuity of arms trading, the second-oldest profession in the world." Cummings, 54, is intimate with this deadly folly: he is by far the largest private arms seller in the world. Interarms Corp., which he founded 28 years ago and wholly owns today, has 250 employees in Britain, Panama, Monaco, Argentina and the U.S. Sales in a good year can top $ 100 million. On the world arms market, that sum is a trifle, as Cummings...
James Tobin, 63, likes to joke about himself as "a discredited Keynesian," in reference to his economics hero, John Maynard Keynes. Last week the mild-mannered Yale economics professor got the last laugh. In Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it was awarding him the 1981 Nobel Prize in Economics. Tobin thus becomes the tenth U.S. citizen to receive the prize since it was first awarded...
...last entry into the cultural crapshoot, hopes to have a pay-TV system ready sometime in 1983, at a cost of something like $13.95 a month to a potential 360,000 subscribers. PBS, which stands for Public Broadcasting System and not, as critics joke, Poor, Beleaguered and Subsidized, is trying to construct an alliance that would include its 280 member stations and such organizations as the Metropolitan Opera and the Detroit Symphony. Though nothing is definite, its programming presumably would be along the lines of its present Great Performances series...
There's a joke going around campus that if the Houses combined teams, the intramural squads could beat the varsity at their own sports...