Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...council should make an effort to return to the issues that matter to students. If not, maybe everyone will realize that it's not just a joke when their elected representatives give them big fingers, and maybe they'll return an appropriate gesture of confidence next time they're asked to vote...
...Maria shouts upstairs to see who is home. "You won't meet him. He'll be out drinking until late." She calls to her sister in Spanish. Cara, the youngest, comes downstairs in her pajamas and greets the stranger politely, as Maria's eyes suddenly shine with a prospective joke: "Cara," she says, "this is your real father...
...knew something was wrong with me, you know? Me and my friend, my friend and I, started joking around. We saw a cop and we stopped in front of him, and I said, "I'm depressed," and we all started laughing. But I was really depressed. Then I went up to a lady, and I said again, "I'm depressed." And she goes, "Oh, honey. I'm depressed too. That's life." I started saying I'm depressed for a joke, but it was real. Then my friend told me, "You're crazy. You've got to talk...
...joke on Fleet Street that the owners of Britain's newspapers may come and go but it is the unions that run the show. And a costly show it is. Fleet Street has been plagued for years by strikes, late press runs and overstaffing. Except for the Sun, a screeching Rupert Murdoch tabloid, most London papers are either losing money or making minuscule profits...
...ungentrified Brooklyn. It is a timely setting for this unruly comic fantasy about the failure of social engineering. Condomania has yet to reach this frontier of violence and depravity, and the Building's activities are too strong for the local evening news. In the bloodstained lobby, the old joke that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged would not be funny...