Word: sarcasm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young men look sullen or stern. Do they know that this is a pre-op for a lobotomy? Double time, in their eight weeks at Parris Island, S.C., they will be stripped of their freedom, their pride, their names. The recruit who dares to hang some John Wayne sarcasm on the drill instructor will be called Joker (Matthew Modine). The guy from Texas will be dubbed Cowboy (Arliss Howard). Gomer Pyle is the name given to a fat bumpkin (Vincent D'Onofrio) whose dim-witted sanctity begs to be beaten into lean meat. The D.I. (Lee Ermey) will oblige...
...checks in 1985, supposedly to assist in the rescue of U.S. hostages held in Lebanon. Investigators, however, disclosed last week that North had cashed $2,000 worth and spent some in stores near his home. He bought, among other things, two snow tires for $100. Senator Rudman, using sarcasm to make the point that the money was not spent for any public purpose, asked Calero "when was the last time it snowed in Nicaragua." The contra leader allowed that it does not snow in Nicaragua. It would be a crime for North to accept compensation from a non-Government source...
...anybody gets bored, "work" is always there to divert our attention. There's no purposeful social setting, or hidden "friendly" agenda, and so there's no pressure to build conversations. We free associate through the shift with random spurts of silliness and sarcasm--a relaxed series of laughs and banter whose only structure is our scooping dance between customers...
...Thanks for the soupcon of sarcasm, fella. But look at the alternative. Look at the fiction writers who are making it--they stink! Well, some of'em are all right. But they're not great! Where are the Faulkners of our generation? Smothered by mediocrity...
...with stupid sarcasm) "I'm off to have fun at the library...