Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amazon Women has five directors, including Joe (Gremlins) Dante and John (Blues Brothers) Landis, but Landis' hand is evident in the "Saturday Night Live"-style satire that pervades the movie. That is, each sketch takes one joke and runs with it until it meets an obstacle, like a football player who catches an interception. Most of the time, the sketches "change channels" before they get stale, but some of them don't know when to quit...
...most U.S. bases abroad. The captain accused in the report of offering to sell women crew members commanded the noncombat vessel Safeguard, which had 18 women among its six officers and 84 enlisted men. A Navy spokesman claimed that the captain's "distasteful" offer was meant as a joke, but his superiors did not consider it funny. They relieved him of his command and filed other sexual- harassment charges against...
...Solicitor General, his Yale law students gave him a construction worker's hard hat with his new title on it. That was , in 1973, when a hard hat still symbolized the bareknuckle school of conservatism. Bork's own methods of persuasion are a good deal less belligerent, but the joke was to the point. He had built his reputation as a legal hard-liner, both for his narrow reading of the Constitution and for the conservative results of such analysis. When he moved later into the offices of a federal judge, he brought the hard hat with...
...night and six hours more to get into the Centro department store, still commonly known by its prerevolutionary name, Sears, where government surplus items are sold at extortionate prices ($2 for a small bar of chocolate). "We have some good news and some bad news," runs the local joke. "The bad news is that everyone is going to have to eat stones; the good news is that there are not enough to go around...
...public office and also campaign. When her husband rather tactlessly suggested last January that his wife would have to leave her job eventually, she sharply rebuked him. The Senator, who plans to announce his candidacy formally in the next two months, turned charmingly rueful. They both made a joke of it, but she was genuinely upset. "I've rarely seen her angry," says her former assistant, Mari Maseng, now communications director of the Dole campaign, "but she was annoyed...