Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cruel joke on Khomeini that he may have to free the American hostages unconditionally in order to end the U.S. embargo. Only then could he hope to get the necessary spare parts and the military hardware that were purchased by the late Shah. Otherwise Iran may crumble and become another Afghanistan rather than a new Islamic republic...
...issues if only the world were not so loony. The hero of Portnoy's Complaint (1969), Roth's most celebrated novel, cries out to his psychiatrist: "Doctor Spielvogel, this is my life, my only life, and I'm living it in the middle of a Jewish joke! I am the son in the Jewish joke - only it ain't no joke!" If not, though, then why is the book so funny...
Student government president Darrell McWherter said yesterday, "It's hard to believe this could happen--even harder to believe it could happen in an ivory tower. It would be even worse if it was a joke. No one who is Black on this campus was laughing last night...
...Environment. Reagan made novel statements about what most threatens clean air; he has cited both trees and Mount St. Helens as wreaking more havoc than auto exhausts, leading to a joke in the Reagan press corps about "the attack of the killer trees." Such nonsense has reduced his credibility in this field. Still, as Governor, he earned respect in California by upholding rigid water-pollution and smog-control laws and by protecting an additional 145,000 acres of park lands from private commercial use. In any clash between energy development and the environment, however, Reagan would be expected to give...
...have devised Bosom Buddies (ABC, Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. E.S.T.). The first ep isode is as silly as its prem ise: two guys dress as women to secure lodging in an all-girl hotel. Some Like It Hot this is not, and some of the jokes are more than nine days old. But there is promise here: the young stars, Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari, know when to underplay a line and when to run with it. If Thompson and Zwick can find inventive ways to extend this single-joke situation, Bosom Buddies could be worth watching...