Word: joking
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...last game of the season and the last for the team's four seniors, perhaps the best class in the Crimson's history. It gave Harvard a tie with Dartmouth for second place in the Ivy League, its highest finish since 1984. It was also a joke of a game, one in which Harvard led 32-6 at one time...
...jovial team of actors runs through the plays at a frantic pace, boiling Mamet's scenes down to a few strategic lines. The actors' own smiles were evident even when they were supposed to be portraying Mamet's rage and angst. As a result, at least one joke--the excessive use of expletives in Mamet's plays--lost its bite. Nonetheless, "Speed-the-Play," as written, works as a mordantly funny critique of over-the-top postmodern theater...
...kind of chronic blackmail, a moral collection racket. In an entirely different way, there are also Israelis who object to Holocaust remembering, because they think it a sign of weakness or at least of unproductive obsession. Some Jews who favor pressing the case against Swiss banks recall a bitter joke: in czarist Russia, two Jews are lined up against the wall to be shot; the captain of the firing squad asks if there is a last request. One Jew replies, "I believe I am entitled to a last cigarette"; the second whispers anxiously, "Max, don't make trouble...
...joke," Gibson quipped...
...Fellows, we too have experienced the problems of democracy. Every group decision we make involves compromise, which can produce frustration and a belief that one's opinion does not count. Individuals sometimes drop out of the discussion, unwilling to participate. At the end of a long debate, we sometimes joke that we have "had enough of democracy" and would prefer to elect a dictator to speed our efforts...