Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hope you like not-so-thinly veiled homophobia. The Jackal "penetrates" government security by seducing a gay civil servant. When he finally disposes of the poor man, the director makes the whole thing look like a big joke. Ha, ha, the gay man got shot! If you don't find this funny, you probably won't enjoy The Jackal...
...There is often a chorus at breakfast of 'B.J.' meaning I had just told a bad joke," the Baird professor of science says, admitting he is known around campus for his sense of humor as well as his chemistry know...
Herschbach and Woodward continued to joke about the painting for many years. Woodward named Herschbach as the culprit in a magazine article years later...
...glasses, their furniture is well selected, and their culinary skills are often on display. "They have all the accoutrements of domesticity," says Stringfield, who spent half an hour at a recent soiree talking about piecrusts, her one hook into what she sees as the prevailing culture. "We kind of joke about how middle-aged we've become...
...classes in this futureworld: civilians, who have sacrificed voting privileges for material ease, and warriors, who earn the right to rule by their willingness to die for the state. In short, we're looking at a happily fascist world. Maybe that's the movie's final, deadpan joke. Maybe it's saying that war inevitably makes fascists of us all. Or--best guess--maybe the filmmakers are so lost in their slambang visual effects that they don't give a hoot about the movie's scariest implications...