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Word: joking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Christmas Story | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Shape of Things to Come | 12/23/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SYL Responds | 12/18/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jonathan S. Steuer, | Title: Sub-Intelligent | 11/23/1985 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Russ Muirhead, | Title: Entrepreneur Sells Drinking Helmet | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

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