Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whom they described as a charismatic figure with great timing. And they spoke of a serious legislator, a student of politics for whom Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted advancement, at least within the House ranks. The liberals of the '80s, always suspicious of Reagan, found Bono's election an easy joke. He was a celebrity Congressman, popular with fellow members as well as with autograph-seekers, the second-most requested draw at members' events behind Gingrich. "The last thing in the world I thought I would be is a U.S. congressman, given all the bobcat vests and Eskimo boots I used...
...Company of Men Gamesmanship '90s-style: a nasty corporate jock sets up a woman--and his soft-willed colleague--for the betrayal of their middle-class lives. Neil LaBute's Freon-cool comedy, made for a preposterously low $25,000, outraged viewers who didn't get the dark joke or the narrative suavity. See it with someone you're sure loves...
DIED. WILLIE PASTRANO, 62, fleet-foot boxer whose nimble moves inspired Muhammad Ali; of cancer; in New Orleans. A chubby child who was the butt of many a schoolyard joke, Pastrano dropped the pounds--and his opponents--in the ring, becoming world light-heavyweight champion in the 1960s...
Hong Kong Killer Chicken Flu Strikes! It's no joke: Scientists are in a flap about a deadly disease that may be passing from poultry to humans...
Blondie took the oath in early 1977. The department he joined had a long history of corruption. A common joke had it that Philadelphia's kids could play cops and robbers at the same time. This was especially true in the 1970s. The mayor was former police commissioner Frank Rizzo, who had promised to "make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" if he won election. "The way to treat criminals," Rizzo explained, is "spacco il capa" (bust their heads). Rizzo was as good as his word. A study for the U.S. Justice Department found that while individual Philadelphia police...