Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best defense these man have is their sense of humor. O'Hara, for instance, followed the story of two children accidentally shot outside a bar with a riotous description of a 300-pound halter-topped nymphomaniac who frequents the spot. All of the officers seemed ready for a joke...
...with some of his friends. Mick Jagger's love, Jerry Hall, 28, has been by to say hello, and Hansen reports "everybody's waiting" for Jagger's 13-month- old Elizabeth Scarlett to meet Theodora. A new band to shake, rattle and coo? Says Hansen: "That's the joke between all the girls in the group, that we'll get our little rockettes going." Ladies and gentlemen, the Crawling Pebbles...
...bitingly funny humor of the narrative voice. the protagonists, with the exception of the child narrator of The Kid's Guide to Divorce," are all young, college-educated. But this is a protective device, as the husband of the protagonist in another story. "To Fill" says "Everything's a joke. You're always flip-flopping words, only listening to the edge of things. It's like you're always, constantly, on the edge...
...saying. "In the FeDepartment you get a not bad summa," but to the Gov Department you get a very good, no distinction.' "The way in which this quote was used by the reporter misrepresents completely the context and intent in which it was said. It was part of a joke during a conversion which included myself, four Government concentrators and one Economic concentrators...
Manhattan friends joke around and tell me they like Washington, which they will not characterize as a city, but merely as a quaint town I laugh aloud but silently fume at their insensitivity...