Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time for the Lampoon truly to hold the Ibis sacred. No matter how warped one's sense of humor, a bird's freedom is no joke. Mr. Threskiornis should be set free at once. It is time that he regain his noble birthright and once again be free to stretch his wings and test the Cambridge skies...
...given the power of life and death over all the Vietnamese he saw. The hatred he soon had for the mysterious villagers, any one of whom could be an enemy in the political war he was fighting, made the very concept of the war a joke. He was fighting to save people he hated, which is why it was so easy for him to destroy their villages in order to save them...
Imagine ocean waves engulfing the topmost girders of the Eiffel Tower. Imagine Buckingham Palace under water, and St. Peter's too. Well, that is just a joke, a metaphor, but it is what one travel agent thinks of when she looks ahead to the travel season this spring and summer. "Europe is going to sink into the ocean under the sheer weight of American tourists," says Jane Levin of Boston's Garber Travel Agency. "In 24 years in the travel business, I have never seen it so busy so early. It's incredible...
WOODY ALLEN USED TO JOKE, when death seemed imminent, his life passed before his eyes, "I saw myself going fishin' down at the fishin' hole, fryin' up a mess o' catfish, and goin' down to the general store to buy a piece of Gingham for Emmy Lou. But then I realized this was not my life, here I was about to die and the wrong life was passing before my eyes...
This statement shows his blatantly patriarchal mind-set. He immediately assumes that all clerical workers are female, and are wearing skirts, and that all administrators are male. The fact that he can make this joke so unthinkingly and not realize its implications is deplorable. Sadly, it is the case that there are no female administrators in Mass Hall; however, it is the attitude of Steiner and other administrators that perpetuates this state of affairs. Sarah Jane Holcombe DSA Cleudia Brett DSA Nick Herton Evan Grossiman...