Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Away from the cameras, Chase looks more like a laid-back graduate student than a TV star. His shirt is rumpled, his hair unruly and his eyes filled with mischief. Even in casual conversation, he is a shameless put-on artist, a comic con man negotiating for a laugh. If he wanted, Chevy Chase could probably sell aluminum siding to a roaming wagonload of gypsies...
...admits he wrote the oration for the sake of his "con-artist tendencies and a with to make people laugh...
...past. But isn't this what scientific debate is all about? Many folks were outraged when someone dared suggest that Noah's flood was not responsible for all those fossils. But that was way back in the 19th century. We know the truth, now, so we can laugh at and make fun of anyone who tries to suggest that we might still be a little bit off track...
...animals, we are human beings," says J. Wyatt. Well, I can't argue with that. The point is that this person, in 1977, still thinks that this implies that we are completely different and completely "better." Any evolutionist would laugh himself silly at the notion of "farther down on the evolutionary scale," a notion Emmerich makes use of, but you can bet that Professor Lewontin isn't going to tell Wyatt that, because he is attacking someone who needs attacking "for the good of the people...
...ratifications early in 1979. Sympathetic groups like the National Education Association have announced they will not schedule conventions in states that have not passed the ERA. Proclaims NOW Founder Betty Friedan: "I say to the women of America, we gotta stop being so ladylike." Florida legislators were quick to laugh off the threatened boycott of the state's tourist industry. As one state senator put it: "We got oceans, white sand, orange juice and Anita Bryant, and that's enough...