Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sports Illustrated publicly wonders where daddy is. In an article exposing the strong paternalistic instinct of certain athletes, black basketball players with absurd numbers of out-of-wedlock children seem the running joke. The magazine mockingly forms an "NBA All-Paternity team"-nine black players and Larry Bird-who have been the subjects of paternity-related lawsuits...
When it comes to Yale, we can joke about safety schools and them "working for us one day" and no one will take offense because, to most of the rest of the world, Harvard and Yale are cut from the same elitist cloth. If Harvard and Yale students are going through similar college experiences and probably headed in the same direction anyway, what's wrong with a little good-natured teasing? If the taunts were true, of course, they would be mean. But because they are concealed beneath a veil of mutual respect, they're harmless...
This raises a major problem with writing about Eastern, particularly Indian thought in the Western world: how to resist the threat of being branded "New Age." India in particular has gone from being a societal punchline (insert Slurpee joke here) to the spiritually uplifting culture du jour: department stores are peddling the ritualistic body paint known as henna, Madonna's got everyone chanting shantih to a disco beat. In a culture based largely on rather mundane Christian morality and imagery, people made of thoughts, eagles born from copulating trees and spontaneously appearing mountains all have the opportunity to be exploited...
...noticed that your lives seem mighty put-together. Or maybe you don't have lives to discuss. Why don't you prove me wrong next week? (and before I get a bunch of e-mails from the House Committees of the river houses, that was just a joke. Don't get too excited...
...from Nina Persson's previously weightless vocals on such vintage pop songs as "Lovefool," I never expected her fiery onstage performance. Bristling with sexuality in her skin-tight leather pants, Persson sang with harnessed intensity and a flirtatious half-smile, as if her very appearance were a wicked, illicit joke between her and the audience. For the dark, menacing songs about the hardness of love that she presented, the coy, harsh delivery was like a sucker punch; she could talk about love's cruel ways not because she was the injured lover, but because she was the cruelty of love...