Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disclosure last week that her parents were worth nearly $4 million was news even to Laura Zaccaro, 18. "Mom," she asked Geraldine Ferraro, "why do we always have to buy at sales?" The question was meant as a joke. Still, the mass of financial data released on the family's finances showed that the couple are indeed wealthy in terms of their varied real estate holdings, but far less so in cash income. Said Ferraro: "We're not flashy. We buy property and we maintain it, and it appreciates. That's what America is all about...
...seems, Washington and Moscow have tried to match charge with countercharge. As the distance separating the U.S. and the Soviet Union has grown wider, those words have begun to echo loudly across the gap. The world last week still heard the shrill reverberations from President Reagan's unfortunate joke about bombing Russia. As the Soviets took full advantage of the incident with denunciations and pious indignation, the Reagan Administration weighed in with yet another affront: the message that it considers the Soviet subjugation of Eastern Europe to be far from permanent. Amid all this, the level of international anxiety...
...President's jest on the official record to illustrate U.S. "hostility" to the Soviet Union. In Western Europe, the West German weekly Stern appeared on newsstands with a cover that depicted Reagan wearing a clown's red plastic nose. Underneath were the words: PRESIDENT REAGAN'S JOKE: TO BE LAUGHED TO DEATH...
Until the deadlock is broken, every utterance by Moscow and Washington will be freighted with significance. The Reagan bombing quip, repeated and amplified by the East bloc's controlled press, has poisoned the already contentious atmosphere. "Nobody should ever joke like that, even in his thoughts or dreams," said a Polish retiree. Said a Moscow student: "If it's true, it means Reagan hates all of us, not just our politicians." An elderly Soviet housewife angrily noted that "such words could only come from a person who has never lived through an air raid." But a Hungarian electrician...
...little bit, but moniker flash may also be passing away. The Gloria Vanderbilt people, for example, admit guardedly that there has been a sales plunge in their basic jeans model. But as much money as they pulled down for a few seasons, designer jeans were always a joke, just a fussy vamp-usually snug around the butt and thighs-on a basic, utilitarian garment. The only different thing was the logo...