Word: pokes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then I vote. Like all absentee voters, my annual foray into the democratic process is somewhat lacking in excitement. Some people get to go into booths, close the curtain and pull levers. I sit on my couch and poke a paper clip through a piece of paper. But that's not what Jeanne thinks is weird. What she finds amazing is the number of dots I poke...
Barry has been known to poke fun at Harvard. In his The Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need, Barry says Harvard grads will take advantage of any opportunity to mention their days at Harvard...
...killed a harmless boy? Come to think of it, where does his alcoholic mother get her money? Smilla begins to poke into a mystery that no one else acknowledges. Answers disappear in the gray, corporate fog that surrounds a great mining conglomerate. The police warn her roughly to stop annoying important citizens. She is befriended -- Why? Simply because she's good- looking? -- by a hulking, silent man, a mechanic, who seems to have had a violent past...
...moves closer to the mainstream, Letterman may find the mainstream has met him more than halfway. Letterman's hip, ironic, show-biz- hardened sensibility has, in the decade since he arrived, moved to the center of the culture in everything from sitcoms to Spy magazine. Billy Crystal used to poke fun at Tonight Show blather on Saturday Night Live ("You look mahvelous"); now he hosts the Academy Awards. Knockoffs of Letterman's Top 10 lists have turned up everywhere but on the backs of cereal boxes. Leno himself has appropriated, clumsily, Letterman-style bits (Jay too makes phone calls...
Irony abounds. On Dinosaur Act, Sweet seems to poke fun at his own hippie- era idols, while Quine's wailing riffs and power chords evoke their bombastic guitar-driven sound. The second half of the record opens with an audio clip from the film Caligula, in which the Roman dictator, played by Malcolm McDowell, declares himself a god; then, on the very next track, comes Ugly Truth Rock, a droll comment on the megalomaniac temptations of stardom...