Word: pranked
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...more comfortable talking about his atheism in interviews than he was exploring the mysteries of his films. He was so adamant about his position that he boasted of a spiteful prank he hoped to pull on his "atheist, communist" friends. When he knew he was about die, he stated "I will call a priest, confess loudly, accuse myself of everything, say I believe in God and tell them to take my death as an example. 'You've shared my sinister beliefs,' [I'll tell them,] 'look at how I die.' And then I'll die and go straight to hell...
...film poses a smug challenge: If you don't like our merry little prank, that makes you square and unhip. O.K., we'll bite. This is soft-gore porn, obvious in its strategies, witless in the play of its ideas, absurdist only in its pretense to seriousness...
Started by a Rhode Island School of Design student named Shepard Fairey, the campaign was originally a joke. Fairey plastered Providence with a sticker bearing a stylized Andre as a prank, and it grew from there--gaining curiosity, notoriety, converts, and a self-consciously totalitarian aesthetic (including lone block-typed words like "buy" and "obey...
While Al Gore will sometimes surprise his staff with an occasional prank or imitation, his sense of humor is on the dry side. So it was quite useful that Gore's senior staff members on the campaign trail were always ready with a dose of exuberant wit. Whether surrounded by needling reporters or awakened in the middle of the night, Chris Lehane, Gore's bantamweight press secretary, winked his way through every bon mot. While other staff members gravely questioned Bush's experience, Lehane instead laughingly squealed, "He's as confounded as he is confused! He's as flummoxed...
...Bush affirmatively misleading about the D.U.I. incident? Slater had interviewed Bush about a different arrest, in 1968, when Bush and his Yale fraternity brothers were charged with stealing a Christmas wreath in what they described as a prank. Slater says he asked Bush whether he had been arrested since that incident, and Bush said no. Bush then seemed to want to amend his answer, Slater recalled, but spokeswoman Hughes prevented the interview from going further, leaving his answer as a denial. Hughes has disputed Slater's account, saying Bush insists he didn't answer no to the first question...