Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...speedways set aside parking space for campers, and some offer alcohol-free family sections in the stands. But a lot of women with keys to the family station wagon, RV or muscle car have found that they love the sport for its own sake. Says Anderson: "We used to joke that we wished you could bottle the smell of the track...
...transformation of Morissette's persona that makes Jagged Little Pill so intriguing. Rebellion--against society, against one's past--is, after all, the essence of rock. When, on Right Through You, she sings, "You took me for a joke/ You took me for a child/ You took a long hard look at my ass/ And then played golf for a while," it's as startling as Chelsea Clinton with a Mohawk. Morissette's anguished, sometimes screechy voice is the sound of postadolescent independence. She's in the driver's seat...
...PAGE NOVEL THAT CONcludes with 100 pages of annotation and calls itself Infinite Jest (Little, Brown; $29.95) is doubly intimidating. First, there is its length, which promises an ordeal like driving across Texas without cruise control. Second, the title itself hints that the joke may be on the reader. By definition, infinite means no punch line...
...home turf in the Southern primaries on March 12. He parcels out his money dime by dime, flying around in rattletrap planes, wearing a beige wool coat he bought from a street vendor in Washington in 1979 and until recently sporting shabby shoes and a broken watch. Aides joke that they've thought the Senator would make one of them share a room with him if the local Super 8 gave him a room with double beds. "There are really two wars going on out here," he says in a plane over South Carolina, eating his turkey sandwich...
...page novel that calls itself 'Infinite Jest' (Little, Brown; $29.95) is doubly intimidating. First there is its length. Second, the title itself hints that the joke may be on the reader. By definition, infinite means no punchline. Yet David Foster Wallace's send-up is worth the effort, says TIME's R.Z. Sheppard. "There is generous intelligence and authentic passion on every page, even the overwritten ones where the author seems to have had a fit of graphomania. Characters and events are propelled by a distinctive prose that frequently mixes teenage trash talk and intellectual abstraction, a Bevis-and-Egghead...