Word: jokingness
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I believe most people do not depreciate gay people because of a deep seated sense of malice, though some undoubtedly do. When I look back on my own experiences. I engaged in the typical high school joking about gays simply out of an insensitive habit, not because I truly detested...
Mao greeted us with his characteristic mocking, slightly demonic smile. He looked better than I had ever seen him, joking with my companions David Bruce and Winston Lord about Bruce's age (then 75), Lord's youth (36) and his own seniority over both of them. He was...
Amid all this unbridled joy one Piston rose above all my other idols. M.L. Carr, Detroit's smooth small forward, was the kind of player who could burn an opposing team all night and then walk off the court joking with his foes.
Conducted back in December, the interview instantly reminded people of Jimmy Carter's infamous "adultery in my heart" Playboy quote in 1976. But Koch's comments may well cause greater political embarrassment. "Anyone who suggests I run for Governor," he confided to Playboy, "is no friend of mine...
The crew in the cockpit of Air Florida's Flight 90 were not oblivious to the freezing conditions; their plane had been de-iced twice. Yet the pilots' attitude about the buildup of ice on their Boeing 737 was at times casual, perhaps imprudently so, judging from their...