Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hope you'll notice how pale I am. I've been sitting, staring at a blank wall," Simic said. "The poet sitting over a blank page is a panic figure similar to the one in the Woody Allen joke about the person trying to cheat on a metaphysics exam...
Kobach and Dreier joke that they are not surprised they both won, although they add that they thought Dreier would win the Marshall and Kobach the Rhodes. They say they supported each other throughout the process and even read each other's essays. But Dreier says their relationship did get a little tense after he found out in December that he had won the Rhodes; the Marshalls were not announced until a month later...
...fees from the French, a claim that is hotly disputed. "Manucher can barely make rent these days," says a relative. Chirac has denied making payments to free the hostages. A member of the Chirac camp well briefed on the hostage case called Ghorbanifar's story a "big fat joke...
...doesn't make much sense for someone who is a defendant in a civil rights case to stand up and tell a racist joke," said Douglas Louison, the lawyer representing the officers in their suit. Louison said that while telling the joke "doesn't rise to a violation" of Constitutional rights or warrant additional charges, the incident suggests a lack of "sensitivity" on Paolillo's part...
...Calvin Kantor, a Black aide to Paolillo, declined to comment on the incident yesterday. Kantor was quoted by the Chronicle as saying that he "wasn't offended" by the joke, and "in my heart I know Tony Paolillo is not a racist...