Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...feel. We talked and talked, but we didn't look at each other. All the time she was looking out the window and I was looking at my sleeping brother, but we were talking to each other. I was scared to look at her face. Then I made a joke, and she started laughing. And I started laughing. And then I looked at her, and showed her that I liked her through my eyes...
Much of 20th century American design seems to have been animated by two competing impulses. One is a kind of mannered childishness, a sometimes arch toymaker's instinct that produced the streamlined gadgetry of late art deco, the Day-Glo plastics of Pop, the high-tech doodads and joke furniture of today. The other is a reformist urge. When not fashioning playthings, designers turn grave, producing furniture and other objects that are neo- Puritan, high-minded. The severe geometries of Frank Lloyd Wright's turn- of- the-century interiors and Steven Holl's beautiful side chair (1984), for example...
...domestic reflection: union-busting and race terrorism. The most hideous recent example of race-terror was the cold-blooded, state-organized murder of 11 members of the MOVE commune in Philadelphia by Reagan and his Black democratic front-man mayor Wilson Goode. However, despicable Joe Menn can joke in his piece about Klan-style "sordid and unhealthy aspects of cross-burning and rock throwing...
...gives an appropriately understated performance as the bleach-blond fugitive, Fred. Lambert, best known for his lead role in Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, invests a lot of intelligence and humanity in his role as a curiously pathetic underground rogue. When he blows a safe, or cracks a joke, he lets out a little cackle like a parched hyena. And when his character is quite literally resurrected at the film's insipid conclusion, Lambert's performance comes close to resurrecting the picture as well...
Even Del Ray, though, who says he originally created the Yuppie Drinking Helmet "as a joke," says he is astonished by the hat's success...