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Word: laughed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even Fleming really doesn't seem to mind, though, and he manages to find a little humor in the situation. "It'll just be embarrassing playing a big team like Texas in the (IAB)," he said. "Man, they're going to laugh, they're just going to laugh...

Author: By Mark H. Doctoroff, | Title: UTexas Visits the IAB (Hah!) | 9/25/1981 | See Source »

...fair, the actors get no help from their director. Neame paces the film by putting a five-second pause between each line of dialogue, as if he were going to splice in an audience laugh track but forgot at the last minute. The dead time only further highlights the inanities Matthau and Clayburgh spit at each other. In an effort to create the stately atmosphere of the high court, Neame relies almost exclusively on close-up, static shots of the two principals inside their chambers. Without any camera movement, he creates a Bergman-like claustrophobia--ridiculously out of place...

Author: By Elizabeth A. Marek, | Title: A New Sister | 9/24/1981 | See Source »

...best laugh, however, was saved for last, when Lovric's 43-yd. attempt traveled approximately 23 yards forward and 15 yards to the left. The long and short of it is that Naso has no one for the long or the short...

Author: By Michael Bass, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: Just For Kicks | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...sound of wild boars being vivisected by a psychotic neurosurgeon." Might as well damn baseball as boring, or stock car racing as a waste of gasoline. Might as well drive off the interstate to search for authentic small-town restaurants, instead of stopping at McDonalds. Might as well laugh at the literalists and the fundamentalists and the millenialists and all those people who are storing canned goods in Montana caves. Might as well just stand up and announce. "I'm better than--or at least I'm different from--(which of course means the same thing) huge stretches of what...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Boston: 267-2200 | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

...rookie did not know whether Hannah was serious, but he didn't exactly wish to rile 280 pounds worth of Alabama human flesh. Later, when Brian Buckley learned that John Hannah has a strange sense of humor, he would be able to laugh. They would kid each other about which was superior--the Crimson of the north of the Crimson Tide of the south...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Flirting With the NFL (or, Standing Pat) | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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