Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hello, this is Hillary Clinton," gurgles your answering machine. And it really is Hillary, no joke, asking you to vote Democratic in last week's elections. She wasn't quite so tireless that she actually phoned individual voters, but she came close. That phone message--left automatically on thousands of machines across the nation--was just one of 100 phone scripts and radio spots she recorded. She also banked millions at some 50 fund raisers and spoke at 34 rallies, blasting through 10 states in the final days like a madwoman...
What the elect don't know, but Allen insists on, is that the state of grace they enjoy is not secular sainthood. That is to say, it is generally unearned by good works and suffering. It is, at best, a capricious cosmic joke and therefore nothing to get puffed up about. "I've become the kind of woman I've always hated," Robin says wonderingly at the end of her journey, "but I'm happier." There's a moral buried inside that irony. Or maybe it's the nasty core truth of our times. Whatever it is, Celebrity...
...long on his laurels, seems to have found a way to fill his postorbital time. Once he gets his land legs, he'll be reporting to literary agent Mort Janklow, who is said to be marketing the astronaut's memoirs. Wanna bet it won't be a joke book...
...turning his show into a hit, and his show won't earn Warner anywhere near what Friends does. So what did the Friends get on their special day? Paperweights. Oddly enough, NBC also gave the Friends paperweights, which led the Friends to think the whole thing was a joke. It wasn't. A Warner spokesman said the studio meant to acknowledge the Friends when the series went into reruns in September, but was a bit tardy. Late last week the studio gave them what the spokesman would characterize only as "a very, very generous gift." Still, next year's negotiations...
...passing freshman fall after noticing in the Science Center that we were basically wearing the same outfit," Jeanne said. She joked that "maybe we should plan to both wear green the following day." The next day, they bumped into each other again. In his green attire, Brian eagerly hinted to Jeanne at their emerging inside joke. Jeanne thought it was totally weird for this guy to be color-coordinating his outfit around her. Jeanne said, "Brian, I didn't want you to think I was so literal." But Brian explained, "Well, I didn't want you to think...