Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joke about a lawyer and a Pope who arrived simultaneously at the gates of heaven. St. Peter admitted the lawyer immediately, explaining to the waiting Pontiff that the attorney got special consideration because heaven was crowded with Popes, but no lawyer had ever made it before. That drew a laugh from present and former lawyers in his audience-including Mitterrand...
...fundraising appearances, Bok is polished and convincing. He arrives alone but mingles with the guests easily and after dinner sells Harvard for all it's worth. He usually draws his biggest laugh when he reminds the alumni that Harvard's endowment is second only to the University of Texas, but "while theirs rests on oil, ours rests on hard work...
...Republican fund-raising dinner in Los Angeles, the President got a partisan laugh by joking, "Believe me, Bedtime for Bonzo made more sense than what they were doing in Washington." The reference, of course, was to a 1951 movie in which Ronald Reagan played a professor who tried to educate a chimp. The wisecrack was part of an attack on congressional Democrats, and as such was a bit unfair since Reagan is partly to blame for the present budget confusion. Back in February, he offered Congress a budget containing increases in military spending so large, cuts in social outlays...
...loped down the Carlton corridors dodging the dozens of would-be interviewers, photographers and starlets, all cadging for a moment with the world's most successful director. In the Palais des Festivals he heard applause erupt throughout the screening and watched an audience of grim professionals laugh and cry after two weeks of wheeling and dealing. During the last minute of the film, the applause kept growing until the fadeout, when an exaltation of bravos enveloped Spielberg as if Pavarotti and not a 3-ft. 6-in. spaceman were ascending into the heavens. The Cannes elite, happy...
Finally I was told there was a plane ready to take me back to Buenos Aires. From the outside it was a normal Boeing 707 with Aerolineas Argentinas markings. Only after I boarded did I realize that the Argentines had had the last laugh: the plane was an empty shell used for transporting cargo and troops. It might be uncomfortable enough with several hundred soldiers as its only source of heat, but a single passenger sitting on a bare metal floor in the darkness was not enough to keep the temperature above that of a meat locker. The last sentence...