Holocaust humor: is it time yet? Will it ever be?
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Lisa Lipkin's and Moshe Waldoks' humorous sketches relating to the Holocaust have drawn severe criticism. However, both children of Holocaust survivors credit humor with saving their sanity. They are one of a growing number of Jews who are using laughter to reveal truths relating to the Holocaust.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1999
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Ill-humor man: how selling ice cream is a lot like dealing crack
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The ice cream business is very similar to the illegal drug trade drug except that it is legitimate. There are also other things an ice cream driver has to bear with that a crack dealer does not, the most irritating of which is the music. Second in line are the children who are greedy.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1996
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Krassner's complaint: what ever happened to obscenity?
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'The F Word,' edited by Jesse Sheidlower, 'Opus Maledictorum: A Book of Bad Words' edited by Rheinhold Aman and 'Speaking the Unspeakable: A Poetics of Obscenity' by Peter Michelson, examine the use and acceptance of obscenity in language and everyday life.
Publication Name: Utne Reader
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 8750-0256
Year: 1996
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