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...know Berke, we feminists just can't take a joke. Can't laugh at ourselves. Just make a little crack and we get all huffy. Can't tease us for refusing your opened door, or insisting on splitting the check. A man's got to watch everything he says these days when one of those women is around...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: A Step Backward | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

Well, Berke, give me a lightbulb joke anytime, I'll laugh along with the rest of them. But spare me your gross prejudices, please. Save them for your beer buddies. Go ahead and give them all the best lines--about how women who call themselves feminists are really sexually frustrated, overweight, undesirables who speak about hating men because they can't get near them. About how Gloria Steinem would look a lot better if she smiled a little more, and maybe wore a little make-up. How the problem with women today is that they're all too bitchy--they...

Author: By Rebecca K. Kramnick, | Title: A Step Backward | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...woman wearing a scarf over tightly rolled hair curlers, and toreador tights over troubled thighs, gave off a brassy laugh as she came across the nose art on a bomber called Whistler's Mother. It depicted a cigar-smoking tart with a mug of beer in one hand, a bomb in the other. "Now that takes me back," she said. "I used to know everything about these things, but that was three husbands ago. You couldn't ask me anything now." After the crowd had had a chance to inspect the craft up close, the show cranked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Scene | 1/17/1986 | See Source »

While the concept of thesis writing makes lots of seniors cringe, Deborah C. Cohen's thesis makes her laugh. She's doing her History of Science thesis on laughter...

Author: By Eugenia Balodimas, | Title: Honors Seniors Start to Summa-Up College | 12/14/1985 | See Source »

...Cohen put it, "The way you learn to laugh at life, that's the way to learn to laugh at vour thesis...

Author: By Eugenia Balodimas, | Title: Honors Seniors Start to Summa-Up College | 12/14/1985 | See Source »

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