Word: poked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many say is history at its best, Shawcross doesn't like to look behind. He worries about what is going on in Cambodia now. He worries about British reporters who, bound and gagged by that country's Official Secrets Act, will never gain access to documents that Americans can poke into...
...discrimination, whereby women or minority groups are associated by the media with certain stereotypical characteristics. We find offensive recent films such as Cruising, which portrays homosexuals as abnormally violent, or television situation comedies which stereotype numerous segments of modern American society. Our characters do anything but that; rather, they poke fun at the stereotypes themselves by illustrating their complete absurdity...
...show be likened to any individual living or dead. The humor of the show derives from ludicrous characterizations at which the audience can laugh without feeling insulted. Edgar Foo Yung is such a character. He bears no resemblance to any Asian person past or present. He is designed to poke fun at an absurd 19th century stereotype. This is what the Mikado, which played this fall at the Agassiz, has been doing on a much larger scale for years. Both shows attempt to make fun of ignorance...
Coach Malavasi survived, barely ("This is the roughest season I've ever been through"), and so did Mrs. Rosenbloom, despite the efforts of the Los Angeles press. The Times assigned two newsmen to poke into her past for a month and reported that she had been married five times before wedding the Rams' owner and that her first marriage had been annulled when she was 15½ years...