Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...around the nation's campuses, displayed the simmering tensions that exist between the minorities and the majority on the nation's campuses. A more subtle racism prevails among the more enlightened students. You catch it in a glance, in a whispered comment behind your back, in a loud joke. Such attitudes, which are even more prevalent when you walk outside the ivy-covered walls into the Square, make it difficult to pursue a mainstream life here. Additionally, these attitudes drive those cooped inside their ethnic groups even farther away from the Harvard experience which others enjoy...
Knocking down his previous story that he had been on such chummy terms with the President as to joke with him about the delicious irony of sending the Ayatullah's money to the contras, the Marine placed a proper bureaucratic distance between himself and the top boss. (This wisecrack, North conceded, had been uttered out of the President's hearing as he and his superior, National Security Adviser John Poindexter, left a White House meeting.) North said he had never even discussed his far-flung secret operations one-on-one with the President. But, he insisted, "I assumed that...
...DIVORCE? bannered the sensationalist Sun across a two-page spread. "It's unthinkable," noted the paper in considerably smaller type. "But anything goes with the royals these days." Declared the rival Daily Express: "She's 26 today, far from shy and surrounded by Hip Hoorays who dance and joke with her till dawn...
...consumers of these R-rated sex comedies are often teenagers who, theoretically, must be accompanied to R-rated films by an adult. Rock Musician Frank Zappa, a formidable foe of those who would censor rock lyrics, gets the movie industry's inside joke: "Is there any kid who hasn't seen an R-rated movie ((without his parents))? What was supposed to be a warning has turned into a marketing tool." Teens who stay up past 8 p.m. can watch R-rated films on pay cable, and at midnight, Manhattan minors can watch Robin Byrd, the G- stringed host...
Once the Carters began writing a year ago, they realized that co-authoring a book was no joke. Reports the former President: "It was the worst thing we ever tried to do together, and we will never do it again." Part of the trouble arose from their conflicting views of the same event. At one point, they report, the arguments became severe enough to threaten their 40-year marriage. "Once I accused him of destroying my memories," Rosalynn recalls. Counters Jimmy: "If she wrote something, it was sacred, as though she received it from God on Mount Sinai, and nobody...