tS=Alfred Hitchcock's meditation on real-life killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb, filmed in uninterrupted 10-minute takes, is remembered today as a quintessential gimmick picture containing the most wonderfully perverse <b>jape</b> of the director's career. <br><br>The cruel <b>japes</b> in this classroom may be at an end, thanks to Mr. Mandelson's intervention.&tQ=A <b>jape</b> is:&tC=An artistic expression|An experiment|A biography|A character sketch|A joke&cC=5&fB=A <b>jape</b> is a joke or trick. From the sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries to <b>jape</b> referred to having sex and was considered obscene. As a verb, to <b>jape</b> means to joke, quip, or make fun of. <b>Jape</b> is pronounced JAYP.
