Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there for a few days to load tanks for Europe. "It was a marvelous, sleazy sailor's town," he says. This time around, Demarest spent four days talking with shoppers, tourists and shopkeepers in and around Harborplace. His conclusion: "Baltimore has gone from being a kind of national joke to a major tourist attraction, a city that can rightfully take pride in itself. The spirit of cooperation is almost unparalleled in America. Baltimore gives hope to all of us who believe that our destiny lies in our cities...
...real action is in the roomfuls of coin-operated electronic games designed to divert, amuse and swallow the quarters of customers waiting for their pizzas to cook. Even more entertainment is provided, free of charge, by troupes of singing, talking, joke-telling robots dressed up to resemble Muppet-like characters...
...usual Hollywood ways. In some respects, they have no sacred cows--Cutter's cynicism gives him the leeway to breach any subject, from the sexual tension between him, a cripple, Bone, the stud, and Maureen, the long-suffering wife, and yet still stay within the realm of a "joke." Cutter is immensely likable, immensely smart, and you realize that what's different here is that very rarely have we seen characters on the screen who are as smart as the audience is--as smart about books, bullshit, and about the days when simply getting out of bed is hardly worth...
...left the youngsters, especially the Americans, totally unimpressed. "This was a letdown," complained Harvard-bound Benjamin Fisher, 18, of New York City, who said that the exam was far too easy for so important a contest. "I was insulted." Added Jeremy Primer, 16, of Maplewood, N.J.: "It was a joke...
Despite the urgency, the spraying effort literally had trouble getting off the ground. State officials had to compete with farmers to get their hands on enough aircraft to do the job. When they finally did get helicopters, repeated mechanical failures led some Californians to joke that the choppers were leftovers from the ill-fated hostage rescue mission in Iran. Pilots and ground crews were unaccustomed to the spraying procedures and slow to adapt to the use of the viscous pesticide solution, which tended to clog pumping equipment. It was not until the end of the week that more than...