Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, the joke's on us. In our third year, when we write our research papers, Langdell Library will be closed. We will not have access to the million of books advertised, but only have direct access to about...
...they announced this proposal. A little notice in our student mail boxes that said, and I paraphrase, "Course preregistration is coming up in a week, and you may want to consider the fact that you'll have no library your third year when choosing classes." The biggest joke is that this announcement was made right after April Fool's Day, so most student thought it was a joke...
Grunge was another game whose time was up. No need to buy something new when the whole point was to look used. Inside-out seams, stitched-in wrinkles and prefab holes were a good enough joke for a few months, especially when worn by a beautiful youngster. But, as is often the case, fashion pushed too far; and by last year, when Kawakubo's Comme des Garcons was showing black-and-white prison stripes, concentration-camp survivors were rightly protesting...
...sort of coherence, however, is immediately broken up by gimmicky effects. Fantasy sequences start and stop with no cohesive meaning. A televised news-program uses the same joke over and over again. A long, derivative variation on the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" video plays for ten minutes while the main character sleeps...
...Love," column, April 4, 1995) by Mr. Lat from whom we have come to expect hard-nosed, objective reportage, free of the liberal bias plaguing the majority of his colleagues. In one stroke Lat betrayed his formerly clear-minded and salient perspective. If this is some kind of joke, it is a rude and tasteless affront to common decency and the last bastions of morality at the College. Lat should leave these sorts of "jokes" to his liberal colleagues...