Word: joking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...apartment. But they're confined to their apartment because of a deep, utterly absurd paranoia: they are afraid of their next-door neighbors' dogs, which, at the end of the play, turn out to be small poodles. They have eight locks on their door (which, in a joke of short-lived appeal, are undone and redone far too many times), a telescope to spy on their neighbors and an unwillingness to leave their home, ever. This set-up forms all of the 80-minute plot, which loses luster and credibility (and the audience's attention) about halfway through...
Believe it or not, the technology that powers television sets--from hand-held models to the big screens for Loker--is older than a joke on "Saturday Night Live." Digital TV will bring our viewing habits into the latter half of the twentieth century...
...picture in yesterdays papers of Vice President Al Gore '69 with the drug smuggler Jorge Cabrera is one of the most sickening to be printed in recent years. While Gore provides a favorable grin, the fat and smug Cabrera laughs uncontrollably at the big joke that our national leadership has become...
This matter is no joke. Congressional investigators quoted in The New York Times contend that Cabrera's money was solicited by a Democratic fundraiser--in Havana. And, these sources say, Cabrera had a wallet photo of himself with none other than chief dictator Castro at the time of his most recent arrest, in which he was charged with smuggling 3,000 pounds of cocaine into the country through the Florida Keys...
...certitude is that many Harvard athletes are hoping Mother Nature quickly rescinds her April Fool's Joke and returns spring to its natural state...