Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...director of Emcor Risk Management, a consulting firm. "You don't let two months pass before you shut down the operation." Says the chief government-bond trader for a large Wall Street firm: "This went on undetected for 11 years? Come on, who's kidding whom? It's a joke...
...impressive names in the movie, with the exception of Allen himself, have tiny cameo roles as various Greek actors or Chorus members. Here the prime question comes into play: does one really want to spend $7.50 to hear Olympia Dukakis crack one joke...
...game is still reeling from the strike that canceled last year's World Series, but it somehow lucked into a fascinating cast for postseason play. The American League will have the Boston Red Sox, who haven't won a world championship since 1918; the joke turned juggernaut Cleveland Indians; the Seattle Mariners and/or the California Angels, both of whom are strangers to the World Series; and perhaps the Yankees. The National League will have the pleasure of the company of pitcher Greg Maddux and the Atlanta Braves; the return of Cincinnati's Big Red Machine; and a choice...
...revealed that she served her unsuspecting boyfriend a cat-food pie), but they would work just as well if Miller simply strolled down the aisles talking to guests the old-fashioned way. Least successful are Miller's opening monologues, which mimic those of countless female stand-up comics who joke endlessly about menstrual cramps and numskull boyfriends. (Miller's low so far: talking about a female runner on steroids, she quipped, "What tipped them off was that she forgot to put the toilet seat down...
...heavy topics--like Core reform and financial aid policy--which, quite simply, are too important for a bunch of wild council faction members to decide for all of us. The PUCC claims to be able to effect these changes so casually that one wonders if it's all a joke. Or do they really think that the U.C. is an organization capable, with its frightfully bad reputation, of being a credible voice on these issues...