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Word: ha (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turns out to be funnier than he is. The nation he has trod these 75 years, the framework for his antics, is itself a dark and serious comedy, simultaneously rejecting and accepting everything in its midst; a riot, a scream. Sometimes (rarely) Nixon laughs aloud. The gunshot laugh, the "Ha!" It is what Beckett designated as the risus purus: the laugh laughing at itself in the abysmal farce, in which every part is deadly ridiculous, every line as funny as a crutch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RICHARD NIXON: The Dark Comedian | 4/25/1988 | See Source »

...forum sponsored by the Harvard International Law Society, Zvi Bar-El, a Washington correspondent for Ha'aretz, Israel's largest daily paper, and Khalil Jhahsan, assistant director of the Palestine Research and Education Center, spoke to an audience...

Author: By Suzanne F. Nossel, | Title: Palestinian, Israeli Debate Riots | 2/24/1988 | See Source »

...School of Government plans a new annex; a Boston development concern plans to replace the Harvard Motor Lodge with an office building; and local developer Louis DiGiovanni plans a similar structure for Mt. Auburn St., on the former site of the Picadilly Filly bar, the Blue Parrot and the Ha'penny...

Author: By Jeffrey S. Packer, | Title: Developers Must Compromise Over Brattle Square Project | 2/3/1988 | See Source »

...just see the author, eyes gleeming with menacing evil, sitting over his typerwriter and screaming, "Ha! Now Pulier will never understand it. Take that, knave...

Author: By Eric Pulier, | Title: Academia Nuts | 1/29/1988 | See Source »

...museum, two - days at the beach resort of Nha Trang and an excursion to the former French hill station of Dalat. All this for $2,000, including round-trip airfare from San Francisco. The two-week tour ($3,000) adds stops at Danang, Hue, Hanoi, Haiphong and Ha Long Bay. Guides and transportation in a cramped van are part of the package, along with overnight accommodations in Manila...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Welcome Back to Viet Nam | 1/18/1988 | See Source »

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