Word: joker
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...naturally more guarded-any boy who suggests the name "Hot" to his kin and turns up at 52 as President-elect was hardly slated to end as a joker-and even in Faye's cafe the next night with a handful of journalists, his wife and daughter, round a ten-foot table over perfect steaks, he is not prone to giggling fits. What he mainly does-or did in that company-is listen with a blowtorch intensity which makes most other brands of human attention seem dazed or bored. (And Rosalynn his wife shares the trait-an interest almost...
...Like a science fiction, double feature" hybridized with every rock and roll conceit known to auditory massage-lovers this show is so tasteless as to approach classicism. Brad and Janet recall their romance: "Here's a ring to prove that I'm no joker (Brad...
...KING AND JOKER...
...King and Joker, Dickinson's subject is the British royal family. Not the actual one, but another that the author invents, complete with idiosyncratic antecedents going back to Queen Victoria. King Victor II, a frustrated M.D., is on the throne. Married to Isabella of Spain, father of Prince Albert and Princess Louise, he lives in Buckingham Palace, where a practical joker is at work. The jokes seem harmless at first: a toad is placed on a covered plate for the King's breakfast (when the butler sees it, he faints). Then the jokes get nastier, ending...
...group broke up to get the boat ready, the atmosphere was relaxed, happy, almost festive. Chris Ernst, who seemed to be the team joker--the T-shirt she was wearing said "Slippery When Wet...isn't everybody?"--was keeping up a running commentary on the process of preparing the boat. At one point she came in making a low whistling noise by blowing through her hands, and soon everyone was sputtering through their clenched fists...