Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effuse about. But perhaps the simple truth is that near death, you have visions of what most preoccupies you in life. I am a skeptic to whom the idea that a benign God created us and watches over us is somewhere between a fairy story and a poor joke. People of a religious bent are apt, under such conditions, to see the familiar images of near-death experience--the tunnel of white light with Jesus beckoning at the end, as featured in the memoirs of a score of American K Mart mystics. Jesus must have been busy when my turn...
...look for work; within weeks, she was posing for French Glamour. "It's not that I wanted to model," she says, sounding for all the world like the survivor of an accident too gory to describe in detail. "It just happened. At first I thought it was...like a joke. I didn't tell them I was a musician. I didn't want to confuse them. But I am a person who is serious, and from the Day One, I wasn't completely happy, because I wanted to play concerts. There was a point when I thought there...
...felt they did not focus enough on the "message that rape is not the woman's fault." Another friend found the meeting "a little silly." and continued, "Everyone was laughing, including the actors." This approach, according to my friend, "makes it seem like calling the number is a joke. I don't want to call that number...
...sentiment among most first-years I encountered was that although the idea of a "Safe Community" meeting is a good one, the issues could be addressed in a more appropriate format. One person commented that the speakers needed to "talk to us more, be real and not make a joke of it." This University, which is supposed to be one of the best in the world, has no clear dedication to the serious issues affecting women undergraduates. Harvard University needs to take sexual violence seriously and address this problem by improving the education during first-year orientation week, increasing student...
...constantly checking ourselves for phoniness, irony forces us either to think more closely about how we feel or to joke honestly about the fact that we feel nothing. I'm worried that in the post-ironic world of Rosie O'Donnell, people suppress so much of their emotions that they believe they love Tom Cruise and peg their audience with Koosh balls...