Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...distracted . . . gentle-mannered to the point of caricature." Haitians who know Aristide are confounded by such descriptions. "There must be some kind of a cultural misunderstanding," says Guylene Viaud, who worked with Aristide's youth groups in Port-au-Prince. "To us he seems very open. He loves to joke and to make people laugh." Says a close friend: "When he feels secure, he opens up. When he's besieged, he shuts people...
Usually, such a determination by the press can be fatal to a political career, but Quayle is fortunate that he has a few factors working to his advantage. The first is that the press did too good a job of making Quayle out to be a joke. It refused to let him fade away, but rather constantly went after him to such an extent that some voters feel sorry for Quayle, and everyone knows who he is. Some perceive him as the victim of a vendetta, not his own actions. After all, could anyone really he that...
...provision, which is in the employment section, "was added partly as a joke and party as a way of showing those wide eye lierals just how ridiculous and how out of hand the civil rights act had really become," Lichtman said...
...than today. On Saturday Night Live, the female cast members are so overshadowed that most of the women's roles seem to be played by men in drag. The only memorable character created by a woman in the past five years is Julia Sweeney's Pat -- and the joke is that no one knows Pat's sex. The show has all but abandoned nuanced relationship comedy in favor of TV parodies and broad, running characters that are like antic vaudeville acts. Chevy Chase and Gilda Radner used to play sketches in bed together. Now we have Operaman...
...first year Clinton marked up a string of successes, including NAFTA, family-leave policy and the Brady Bill. But several of them, notably the one-vote majority for his deficit-reduction plan last year, were the kind of skin-of-his-teeth victories that White House staff members joke about as "Clinton landslides...