Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Canaday C-entry eats together, stringing together one in-joke after another. They talk about putting the doorknob through the wall, and they joke about their janitor. No one complains about "isolation" or unfriendly neighbors. "I expected people to be a lot colder. Everyone, especially the people in my entry, is very nice," one freshman says...
...momentum on the drive to Burlington, Vt., for the tournament semifinals. They dominated the play against Cortland State, especially in the second half, but couldn't finish any of the special touches a soccer team needs to score goals and to win. The consolation loss to UMass was a joke, a 1-0 freeze-out that left no smiles in Crimson...
...everyone appreciates the sheer physical feat of building the thing--some people remember instead the blocks of inner-city residences that were torn down to make space for it, the families displaced by the construction. And some are embarrassed by its size. There is a joke among Taiwanese students that when a young man from the southern city of Kaohsiung came to Taipei for the first time, he walked all the way around the memorial wall to see the designs of the windows which decorate it, no two of which are alike. At the end of his walk, he could...
...surviving liberal Republicans, Maryland's Charles Mathias. The gloom and foreboding among the anonymous legislative technicians who had hitched their careers to long-dominant Democrats and once fashionable moderate Republicans in the U.S. Senate were symbolic of the postelection upheaval on Capitol Hill. Aides who could joke at the prospect of soon being out of a job mimicked Paul Revere: "The conservatives are coming! The conservatives are coming...
...porcupines make love?" asks the old joke. "Very, very carefully."But how do other animals do it? For those who want more serious replies, Biologist Robert Wallace provides some fascinating (and nonprurient) details. Volumes have been written about mating rituals at the top of the food chain. How They Do It demonstrates that the lower animals have rituals that are every bit as varied-or bizarre. Geese, for example, form ménages à trois; bedbugs practice homosexuality; lobsters are rapists, immobilizing mates with their powerful claws. Chimpanzees are hyperpromiscuous: an oestrous female will usually mate with every male...