Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lower rate than some guy making less than me is a joke. That's wrong. When you look at the taxes I've paid in my life, I don't have to tip my hat to anybody. There are individual years where I've paid well over $100 million in taxes. And for a guy who started out with nothing, you know, I just consider that a happy event, because if you're paying that much in taxes, things are going pretty well in your life, right...
...this time, the Bee became a joke around the newsroom. I was the butt. I was given a stuffed Bee around Christmas and a picture book called A Is for Animals...
...defense of the editor, another staff member of the Review, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, says that the man's remark was "a joke in poor taste...
When the play debuted in London in 1987, where it was seen as a satire of me-first excesses of the Thatcher years, its central joke struck this reviewer as peculiarly English. For centuries Britons portrayed Italy as the epitome of treachery and mayhem; in this tale, although the McCrackens are enmeshed with five Italian gangster brothers (played by the same quick-changing actor), the real savagery is British born and bred. London's production, directed by the author, had the advantage of Michael Gambon in the lead. His Jack McCracken was a true reformer, alight with the intensity...
...after you've seen three or four such bleakly comic moments, you -- if not necessarily the news directors back in the studio -- get the joke. And perhaps the sociological point. Time to show us something else, something completely different, if possible. But no, Los Angeles television just kept pouring raw footage from the remote units onto the screen. It was roughly the equivalent of dumping raw sewage into Santa Monica Bay. In effect, intelligent life-forms -- those organisms struggling to make sense of tragic chaos -- found the oxygen supply to their brains...