Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...COSmos, the more we realize how trivial we are in this amazingly vast and complex system. In such a universe, which is far beyond human imagination, we are obsessed with our immature and selfish thoughts, destroying and tearing one another apart under various banners. We are nothing but a joke in this universe. ALI PIRAHANCHI Johannesburg, South Africa Via E-mail...
...said if Malan and his colleagues were not granted immunity, then senior government figures like the present Defense Minister, Joe Modise, should lose the amnesty they have been granted for having ordered A.N.C. guerrillas to carry out armed attacks and bombings. Mandela dismissed De Klerk's comments as "a joke"; De Klerk's National Party snapped back that Mandela was a con artist...
...when we get those pictures, what's to make us believe that they are actually of the red Jovian planet? How are we to know that the brilliant scientists on the West Coast aren't playing a huge practical joke upon us? If they're smart enough to launch satellites into space, they're certainly smart enough to touch up a red spot here and an atmospheric ripple there...
...with all its faults, The Twilight of the Golds deserves a meaningful look. It'll tick you off for a number of reasons, make you laugh (listen for the planting trees in Golan Heights joke) and maybe shed some tears When it originally opened in New York two years ago, one woman found the play so moving that she look out an ad in the Times in an effort to raise money to keep the production afloat for as long as possible. If nothing else, The Twilight of the Golds is a gripping story, important and timeless, it seems, with...
This review is not the cry of a prude. Frankly, we don't care if a joke's funny as long as it's dirty. But in switching writer-directors, from the first film's Tom Shadyac to Steve Oedekerk, Carrey lost a clever farceur and got what Ace would call a la-hoo-za-her (loser). The star plays more than ever to himself; the cast stands around starched and embarrassed, like white-tie judges at a wet-T shirt contest. Wearying, stupefying, dumber than dumb, When Nature Calls would be a career ender for Carrey--except that...