Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...history's practical joke," says Beschloss, that a man who so admires activism became President in the tranquil, prosperous '90s. Political survival has required him to tack left and right, bending to the times, and diluting the power of any convictions he may claim to have. But Clinton believes he can still be the one who turns the nation's face to its future. "To me, it could hardly be more exciting for the United States, because things are going well for us. We know there are challenges on the horizon, and yet we have the luxury of meeting them...
WASHINGTON: At a breakfast in Washington last week, Mike McCurry was asked if it was de rigeur for a press secretary to lie to protect his boss. Typically, he opened with a joke: "Press secretaries cannot lie." Then he revealed the secret of success: truth was simply not his job. His term is that he is not "an original fact-finder." And if the President lied to him? "When there are prospects too horrible to contemplate, I don't contemplate them...
...variety show that brought a jokey, mass-market, safe feminism to TV as Sonny played emasculated buffoon to Cher's smart aleck. It was all his idea. As Cher said during her astonishing funeral oration last week, "He had the confidence to be the butt of the joke because he created the joke." But he was also in charge of the joke. The show ended in 1974 when Cher left Sonny, accusing him of virtually keeping her in indentured servitude...
...also had a subtle, charming guile. In his eulogy last week, Newt Gingrich recalled how Bono defused a tense congressional meeting with a joke at his own expense. Even Cher couldn't stay mad at him. (Bono jokingly explained away her barbs as proof she was really still in love with him. And after last week's tribute--the final episode of the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour--who's to say he was wrong?) He recognized few barriers. Parties at his Georgetown home were smorgasbords of Republican stalwarts consorting with Bono pals like Democratic Congressman Barney Frank and John Waters...
...ready to start opening up his veins in public just yet. When asked if he's been seeing anyone romantically after breaking up with his longtime girlfriend Shoshanna Lonstein last year, Seinfeld--after ribbing the reporter who dutifully if reluctantly posed the question--responds only with an old joke from Larry David's stand-up act: "I'd like to start a family, but you have to have a date first." Having already sold his L.A. home, he's planning to move back to New York City and open up a small production company, more about which...