Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...what do what are their goals? "To form a microrepublic," they joke. "We buy a few islands, then declare war on the U.S. Of course we lose the war, then are rebuilt by the U.S. with war reparations. Then we declare ourselves allied to the U.S. and get loans from the U.S. government. Once we have the loans, we populate the republic with natives...
...Louise Ciccone, who is 26, and her Wanna Be's, such getups somehow suggest the '50s, now conceived on the evidence of old Marilyn Monroe movies to have been a quaint and fascinating though slightly tacky time, rich in flirtatious, pre-feminist sexuality. Although to her it's a joke, Madonna's "Boy Toy" belt buckle offends almost everyone except the Wanna Be's. Those who snoozed through the '50s the first time around are mystified. Some feminists clearly feel that Madonna's self-parody as an eye-batting gold digger, notably in her song Material Girl, is a joke...
...last funny, sad, self-parodying joke as the lights go up: a loud, disapproving, male voice is heard over the loudspeaker, saying "Madonna, get down off that stage this instant!" And Madonna's recorded voice, whining, "Daddy, do I hafta?" Then the Wanna Be's, to whom the war between men and women is still far less real than the eternal skirmishing between parents and children, file out of the hall, dreaming of the time when they will be able to do anything in the world they want. Like Madonna...
Whatever strains were placed on the Washington-Bonn alliance, they did not extend noticeably to the first-name working relationship that Reagan has established with Kohl. As they greeted each other warmly at the Chancellery, Reagan managed to get off a joke, this one about a theft in the Kremlin. What turned out to be missing, said the President, was "next year's election results." Kohl announced that if the President ran for office in West Germany, "he would be elected with a large majority." One U.S. participant in the talks said, however, that "nothing" new was brought...
Marr's agile guitar practically saves "The Headmaster Ritual". From Morrisey's aggravathig yodels, but otherwise its a losing battle. Only the cuts "How Soon is Now" (arguably the best thing the Smiths have done luckily available elsewere as a single and on Hatful of Hollows) and "this Joke Isn't Funny Any More" have emotional or intellectual integrity--but only by covering well-trod territory the sexual anxiety of an unappealing ingenue. The Smiths, despite their musical originality and superior sensibility, are hemmed in by Morrissey's hang-ups. The newest single. "Shakespeare's Sister," (not on the album...