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Word: laughed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there's an obligation to open yourself up to all the craziness in the world. And then usually when you have all that, when you have a clear picture of the craziness and you write about that, that's usually what's funny. I think that's why people laugh. It's good laughter when you point out all the ironies and you're not afraid of the ironies anymore. Sometimes people laugh because the're scared and can't figure them...

Author: By Aldrich N. Potter, | Title: A World of Ordered Chaos: Behind the Lines With Bill Davis | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...question, what's it like to live in hell every day? All of which is to say, the Kinks are alive and kicking as much as Mick and Co., and they deigned to play Boston, too. Mick Jagger is still singing to impress; Ray Davies sings to teach and laugh...

Author: By David M. Handelman, | Title: The Demons of Pseudo-Euro-Disco; Jeffreys, Hunter, Kinks & Stones Redux | 10/29/1981 | See Source »

...voice is going to die out, then I want to make sure it dies out at least having given me a chance to try and get a better position in my field." What kind of position? "Like Madison Square Garden," he says with big eyes, and then a stacatto laugh. You see, Meyreles explains, "I've always had this dream of...well, being famous...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Singing the Brattle Street Blues | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

...crowd seems to have heard Meyreles before. This is not the first time he's welcomed them "to Harvard Square, where you come to look for people crazier than you are." "That's why I'm out here," the musician says, peering into the audience. And the people still laugh...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Singing the Brattle Street Blues | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

...musician jokes that he will know he finally made it "when I hit the New York Times entertainment section." But he follows it with another stacatto laugh and then says, "I've already made it. I'm there. The only thing I can do now is make a little more money or get a little more recognition in what I do. Whether I do it in the street or in Madison Square Garden, it's going to be the same thing...

Author: By Thomas H. Howlett, | Title: Singing the Brattle Street Blues | 10/28/1981 | See Source »

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