Word: joking
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Ireland spoke of the recent selection of a female attorney general as "instructive of many of the issues we face." She said that after Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood were denied the position, the running joke in Washington was that for President Bill Clinton to find a suitable female candidate he would have to locate "a childless woman with a dirty house. So along came Janet Reno...
With five of the conference's seven teams (Columbia doesn't have one) ranked in the top 15 in the country, the Ivy League is no joke when it comes to women's lacrosse...
DOLLY PARTON WAS GETTING TO be one of those eternal celebrities, a familiar twinkle in the collective mind. At 47, she is still enough of a cultural touchstone to be of use to comedians when they need the punch line to a bosom joke. She might do a movie or a guest spot on Leno. But mostly, she's been a stately float in the Icon Parade -- the 50-tooth smile encased in antebellum shady-lady couture and a platinum hayloft of hair. Should we expect more of the only woman to have a theme park (Dollywood) named...
...Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom -- a new, rather too strenuously titled HBO film -- is intended to be a spoof of TV's ubiquitous true-crime movies. The joke is that it's more believable than most of the ripped-from-the-headlines docudramas it pokes fun at. Director Michael Ritchie (Smile, The Candidate) and screenwriter Jane Anderson (The Baby Dance) don't lampoon the genre; they merely strip it of the solemn sensationalism that TV usually lavishes on these seedy tales. What's left is acid black comedy...
...Smiths joke that they are "cashews," an Irish Catholic married to a Jew who drifted away from his faith after his bar mitzvah. Chicago attorney Stephen Smith and his wife Eileen now find themselves searching together. "This isn't about having material goods and being empty. That's a cliche," says Stephen. "It's being in a place you can safely drop your guard. It's wanting to put meaning to a world where kids are shot going to school." The Smiths often attend Mass and also visit liberal Rabbi Allen Secher's monthly gatherings for those...