Word: guffawing
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...incredible pomposity motivates all my important drives," he blurts out, with a guffaw. "And if you print that, I'll deny every word...
...years ago, claims that he got a hankering for the nation's highest office during a telephone conversation with President Kennedy, who told him, "Let us not ask what we can do for Bozo; let us ask what Bozo can do for us." Hold it; stifle that guffaw. The clown is serious about all of this. He really wants to do "something good for the world." But his campaign literature does have one glitch in it, he admits. The slogan "Put a real Bozo in the White House" should have been "Put the real Bozo in the White House...
...Hail to the Chief, the President leans over to Nancy and says, "They are playing our song." He chuckled to himself, an old sportscaster, that the baseball All-Star game was played without his even knowing. Even that garish glen-plaid suit that rattled European style arbiters brought a guffaw. "Did you see that suit on NBC? I like that suit. And then I saw an NBC shot indoors and that suit gleamed like it was lighted...
PETER SELLARS HAS BALLS. His King Lear drives Shakespeare's poetry to a North Hollywood parking lot, yanks it from the back seat and stabs it helter-skelter while the gods guffaw. But Sellars' production fails because it attempts too much, his ambition exceeds his grasp. Far from letting the play breathe, he beats it about the neck with a crowbar, adding abrasions and welts until he obscures his own intentions. By any interpretation, Lear should not be an interminable, mired melodrama set in a tempest of technology. Sellars' Lear is a tragedy of excess...
...century American engraving entitled The Old Wine God and the New, a graybeard Bacchus passes a vine-wreathed staff to a wide-eyed Western stripling. The artist's message: the age-old mysteries and delectations of the grape are flourishing in California soil. It must have evoked a guffaw or two from Victorian clubmen with noses deep in the real stuff from...