Word: jokingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poor reputation of today's council comes from a mismatch between what it calls itself and what it actually does. Many current council members do a good job trying to make the campus a better place. But it's a joke to say they "govern." Scrap these farcical elections and pretensions of democracy, and the council will have a clearer role on campus and the flexibility to accomplish more...
...five years, I have never once heard a voice raised in anger," he said. "I have never once heard any member of our court, in total privacy, make a slighting remark, even a joke...about another member of the court...
...only presidential contender to get outright laughs at Thursday night's candidate debate, tie-dye-wearing, pony-tailed Dreyfus boasts a "bellicose" platform--he wants to declare war on developing nations--that have convinced many students that his candidacy is one big joke...
DIED. JOEY ADAMS, 88, borscht-belt wit whose syndicated daily joke column proved comedy is easy ("Myron's wife underwent plastic surgery. He cut up her credit cards"); in New York City...
...into Emmets skin. Stuttering, overconfident and vulnerable, Emmet is a bundle of nervous tics that Penn knows how to make believable. Emmet is, in addition to being a performance artist, a kleptomaniac, pimp and all-around heel, who somehow comes off as a nice guy despite himself. The running joke of the movie is that Emmet Ray is the second greatest jazz guitarist of his time, and the two times that Emmet has encountered number one, the real-life figure Django Reinhardt (this Gypsy guitar player from France), he fainted on sight. Penn handles the movies many slapstick moments with...