Word: pranksterism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team's recent games and its goals for the next week, Freed is stern and tough, but at the same time hopeful. He tries to keep the work in perspective, peppering his sometimes tough Vince Lombardi language with jokes. In practice, Freed the storyteller sometimes plays Freed the prankster. At a recent Tuesday evening session, Freed called on freshman Jake Bassett to entertain the team with a song...
...home team in this movie has the shambling air of good-natured, slightly out-of-it sandlotters. Bishop (a well-cast Robert Redford) is a sometime merry prankster, still on the run for computer crimes he committed in the '60s; he now heads a marginal enterprise that does legalized breaking and entering designed to test corporate security systems. His associates include a defrocked cia operative (Sidney Poitier); a gentle paranoid (Dan Aykroyd) who believes the same group that killed Jack Kennedy also framed Pete Rose; a blind computer whiz (David Strathairn) whose keyboard -- and Playboy -- are in Braille...
...contrast to the mercurial Yeltsin, Gorbachev is safe and sound. Consider, for example, Yeltsin's statement on Russian territorial claims against other republics. It seemed to explode on the political scene like a firecracker tossed by some impish prankster. Then, in characteristic style, the Russian leader slunk out of Moscow, leaving no official word of his whereabouts, though he was presumed to be on his way to one of the Baltic republics. Such acts are the stuff of grand legends, not sound policies. And they are most definitely not characteristic of the cautious Gorbachev style of leadership...
...Francisco handed a flight attendant a trash-filled airsickness bag and claimed it was a bomb. His attempt at humor didn't go over very well with the crew, which placed the bag carefully in a protective box, dumped fuel and headed back to Japan. Last week the prankster paid United a relatively small damage settlement of $29,000. An airline lawyer explained that after the man apologized, the company decided to take a "very Japanese action" and not sue for the total costs of the returned flight...
...Kaufman, George Bush's new deputy assistant for political affairs. Named last month to the job held by Atwater during the Reagan years, Kaufman comes from the same school of hardball politics as the former Republican Party chairman. Kaufman once asked an associate why his reputation as a prankster was so enduring. Came the reply: "Because you are a prankster...