Word: guffawer
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...would just guffaw. She was not ruled by social convention,” one friend said...
Crimson reviewer David M. Frankel ’81 wrote, “Peter Sellars has balls. His King Lear drives Shakespeare’s poetry to a North Hollywood parking lot, yanks it from the back seat stabs it helter skelter while the gods guffaw...
...would just guffaw. She was not ruled by social convention,” one friend said...
...with a picture of Alba, a fluorescent green rabbit. The professor showed Alba—the brainchild of a sick-minded conceptual artist—to raise the ethical question of whether it is acceptable to genetically engineer animals for artwork. But no sooner did he get a perfunctory guffaw from the class for effect, than he gave a brief exhortation to the class to go home and think about the interesting ethical dilemma of engineering life as artwork. Without further comment, he clicked the slide continuing the lecture as normal...
...quickly splits into non-Harvard versus Harvard. The non-Harvardians are smart, charming, their wits more than lightly lubricated—and they know an easy target when they see one. They guffaw gently at what we’re studying (“Medieval history? English?”) and volunteer their own talents (“I can talk about Tim Salmon’s mama in Japanese. Wanna hear...