Word: laff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this film will have, for the host of avid movie experts, the same kind of historic interest that the picaresque novel contains for the smaller group of people who still read novels. One cannot fully appreciate the modern motion picture without having some idea of the laff riots of yesteryear, when faces served principally as background for pies, and pants could be counted on to be torn off in the middle of Main Street...
...that money is very important to people, and that they talk about it a lot. Because the play's themes are announced so carefully, it is hard not to feel short-changed at the realization that The Folding Green makes no more meaningful a statement than the merest commercial laff-riot--especially since a laff-riot...
Janus, the latest laff riot that Broadway has farmed out to the provinces, is making an unsteady last stand at the Plymouth before it is consigned to the back pages of high school drama catalogs...
Unlike many other natural history movies-especially some in the current Disney cycle-it is not flossed up with camera tricks or laff-riot editing. When Secrets' love-smitten pair of octopuses meet, they do not croon to each other Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey; they simply mate, an act whose essential mechanics are obscured by a romantic flailing of tentacles...
...activities of our organization are directed towards securing inter-racial understanding and cooperation through educational methods. Because we do not believe that negative educational methods are effective, we would not write "laff" on a blackboard and tell children to avoid spelling "laugh" that way. Likewise, we would not show a film which is rife with anti-Negro propaganda and which presents a warped viewpoint of the period in American history in which the Negro's role was a highly controversial subject...