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...minutes to a pungent, funny and recognizable human situation. Every step must be swift, unforced, and in itself worth hearing. The actor has to infuse his couples with a skillful variation of tone and inflection to bring this off. When he is successful, the dialogue attains the bellylaugh level and is made all the more funny with the extra wallop of an unexpected rhyme. When he falls, the dialogue lapses into dry monotony which is about as pleasurable to the audience as chewing on sand...

Author: By Sim Johnson, | Title: Le Misanthrope | 3/4/1972 | See Source »

...politician's firm handshake and a warm smile which only cools after you have seen him flash the identical smile at reporters, the President, starving Biafran babies, and housewives in Queens. One of his aides recently complained that he has adopted the Rockefeller's style of laughing: a big bellylaugh with his tongue hanging...

Author: By Deborah B. Johnson, | Title: Goodell: A Freshman Senator Bucking the Party Line | 10/14/1969 | See Source »

...including the Hearstpapers, gave the warm, candid photographs a big splash. Taken by talented Papa Rossellini himself, they showed a lovely Bergman in short hairdo and maternal mood, a generally solemn-eyed baby. (But in one six-picture sequence, four-month-old Renato obligingly worked himself up to a bellylaugh under his father's skilled direction.) When Editor Mautner heard what Bureau Chief Chinigo had paid for the pictures, he redoubled his congratulations. The price: not one thin lira...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reward of Patience | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

...Plymptom squad is knee-deep in danky outfielders. In center, husky, bronzed Juan P. Leapandfall will start if the hone spur on his ailing heel shapes up; Chuckles (XX) Bellylaugh is slated to tend the right garden; and devilish Cocksure will attempt to run the game while patrolling the left pasture...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Frahious Crimeds Spread Napkins Today Make Ready to Caste of This Meat, 23-2 | 4/29/1949 | See Source »

Chuckle (Wy.) Bellylaugh drove in 21 of the Crimson runs. Sergeant James Toumey ran in the other two. The boatings: WE THEY Neverstall, jg Choo Handemedown, ss Choo Pooshemup, tony Train Stein, beer Smith, trom. Bear, woolly Punch, ugh Coxe, sic Brelis, spade Weather, wet Kops, ng Track, fast Cabot, lockout Altrocchi? Marx, engels

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ho Hum --- Crime Wins, 23-2 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

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