Word: jokingness
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“The Vendee Globe was too long, too hard, too dangerous,” he says, joking that “I would’ve rather go played in a Superbowl with the Patriots just to take a day off.”
When Venezuela's Mining Minister Rodolfo Sanz walked into a televised Cabinet meeting this week, President Hugo Chávez impishly asked, "So how's the uranium for Iran going? For the atomic bomb." Chávez was joking, but few were laughing outside Caracas and Tehran. Ever since Ch...
Jody Powell, who died Sept. 14 at 65, was the cooler of Jimmy Carter's two top young aides. (Hamilton Jordan was hotter, more passionate.) Powell was an excellent press secretary--funny, unflappable, totally devoted to the boss. He was the descendant of nine Civil War veterans and, as W.J...
Midway through “Generosity,” Richard Powers’ stunning new novel, the charming businessman and geneticist Robert Kurton participates in a public debate with an unnamed novelist. The subject: genetic enhancement of human beings. The shy author begins, awkwardly reading from a prewritten speech. But...
Following the three-hour event, the birthday boy made his way over to the Masters' Tea at Lowell House, joking that his tie was actually his "ticket" into his old home, which he vists when in town.