Word: joking
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...joined TIME only last month, has already had the unusual experience of being able to admire his photo in the magazine: last year, while he was still a national correspondent at Newsweek, he made our pages after winning a contest that crowned him Washington's Funniest Celebrity. The joke's on the Capitol, because his new job is working as TIME's deputy Washington bureau chief. Cooper will help shape coverage of the 2000 campaign while continuing to write about politics. Fortunately, this will not require complete sobriety. As demonstrated by his piece on George Bush in this week...
Warren Beatty--the people's candidate. A joke? In the age of Jesse Ventura, there are no jokes in politics, just long shots with varying chances of paying off. Knowing this, the media took Beatty's comments seriously, filling the papers with stories about a man who may, according to cynical observers, be perversely overqualified for the nation's highest office. He has not only made better movies than Ronald Reagan, but his legendary years of womanizing make Clinton look like a Mormon missionary and J.F.K. like a rural parish priest. A Beatty campaign, it seems fair to speculate, would...
...faced down Nazi prosecutors after being falsely accused of burning down the German parliament - the government?s demolition team scheduled a third attempt on Sunday evening, this time using 600 pounds of Ammonite, a more potent explosive. But, as if to prove that Bulgarians never tire of hearing a joke repeated, it failed, too. Now the authorities plan to do the job with bulldozers. Better keep those hard hats on, boys...
Sometimes the gods of pop music like to play a little joke. Browsing the aisles of a Times Square record store the other day, Christina Aguilera got quite a surprise. Unrecognized amid the hurly-burly of fellow shoppers stood one of her heroes, Fred Durst, leader of the red-hot rock-hop band Limp Bizkit. Aguilera zeroed in, angling for an autograph, but it was not to be: her quarry slipped into the crowd and scurried away...
George W. Bush likes to joke that when one of his daughters saw how well he was doing in the polls, she told him, "Dad, you're not as cool as they think you are." That's about all we're likely to hear this campaign from either of his 17-year-old twins BARBARA and JENNA. As granddaughters of a President, they are already monitored by the Secret Service, which has asked the campaign to skimp on the details of how the pair spent the summer. That's fine with the potential First Twins. "They're not big into...