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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...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain and Benjamin N. Smith, S | Title: A Ride on the Wild Side | 4/18/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 15, 1985 | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Jean-christophe Castelli, | Title: Moore Slaps and Tickles in First Stories | 4/8/1985 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Theses Are No Joke | 4/4/1985 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Nicholes S. Wurf, | Title: Every Town Is Our Town | 4/3/1985 | See Source »

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