Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...stop being scared, to organize a collective self-defense against the injustice and lies that sooner or later would have led to a complete Soviet-modelled decomposition of Polish society. Naturally, there was a risk involved, but from a Polish point of view--expressed brilliantly in a joke: "You say they may invade us? Why, they're already here!"--the risk of spiritual surrender to sovietization was much greater...
...course not everything works. Several obvious jokes are beaten laboriously into submission, particularly in the articles on a fat chef, a "liberated" inflatable lady and the Shah in hell. A promising spoof of those insipid People interviews ends drearily when the same joke--the interviewer not recognizing his subject's newsworthy statements--dies from repetition. The parody also slips up in the celebrity department. Probably because it concentrates on the briefly famous folks in People, it never captures the unique flavor of People's celebrity profiles; the parody doesn't look at the amusing laundry list--current success, difficult childhood...
...best overall record in the National League East yet missed the play-offs because the Phillies edged them by 1½ games in the first half and Montreal finished one-half game ahead of them in the second. Griped Cards Manager Whitey Herzog: "The whole thing is unjust, a joke...
...entering a crucial period when the very substance of his economic philosophy is being tested by reality and challenged by Congress. But the President remains an irrepressible optimist. As he grappled with his economic predicament and the recalcitrance on Capitol Hill last week, he told an old joke about the ever-hopeful little boy who finds himself standing amid a pile of horse manure on Christmas morning. The punch line: "There must be a pony in here someplace." -By Walter Isaacson...
...museum itself, a $11 million steel and concrete triangle, prompted some to joke that there were not enough memorabilia from Ford's brief 30 months in office to hang on four walls. That is hardly a problem. The political odyssey of the Eagle Scout from Grand Rapids is represented by full-size replicas of the Oval Office and the Quonset hut from which he ran his first, successful, campaign for Congress in 1948. Among the treasures: Ford's typed pardon of Predecessor Richard Nixon, an aide's memo suggesting that he not keep Alexander Haig as Chief...