Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...considering who finished first a year ago, that's a pretty funny joke...
...remark may have been ill advised. Nevertheless, even the dullest-witted reporter would have known that it was a joke and its publication could only create mischief...
...wife and I were traveling in the Soviet Union when the bombing joke occurred. Tensions were high in the wake of the Leningrad incident, in which a U.S. serviceman was roughed up, and became appreciably higher after the President's remark. Had we been harmed, I would have held Devroy responsible, not Reagan...
Before his controlling joke ("prefaces that lead nowhere") wears thin, Lem concludes his fictional anthology with a series of pseudo-documents that seem to have a middle and end as well as a beginning. GOLEM XIV is the last in a line of increasingly super computers developed to monitor the U.S. interests in peace or war. Unfortunately, it has grown indifferent to this task, and so has HONEST ANNIE, its superior and supposedly foolproof successor. Says one of the commentators on this debacle: "In a word, it had cost the United States $276 billion to construct a set of luminal...
...Antonio Salieri, the 18th century Italian composer whom Peter Shaffer resurrected in fictional form for his 1979 play Amadeus, one peculiar genius was even more frightening: a precious gift and a malicious joke from God. The creature's name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart-"Spiteful, sniggering, conceited, infantine Mozart!" as the play's Salieri, his contemporary and rival, calls him. "I had heard a voice of God," the Italian mutters after listening to a Mozart adagio, "and it was the voice of an obscene child!" Salieri carried a double curse: to appreciate beyond pain or pleasure Mozart...