Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prison two blocks away, where the six men were being held. While their supporters rallied outside the courthouse, the men spent part of their time doing sit-ups and leg lifts, and when the jury announced convictions on all counts, they took a break from a card game to laugh and clap. In a similar room sat the four women, reading, napping or just listening in. After each witness had finished, marshals asked the two groups if they wished to cross-examine. The responses invariably ranged from silence to "no" and were walkie-talkied back to another marshal...
...twist. While the original protagonist shrank from a dose of radiation, Tomlin's happy homemaker would suffer from exposure to the mysterious ingredients in supermarket products: everything from "tumescent tissue of bull scrotum" to a mad scientist's most corrosive chemicals. The audience would know when to laugh: at the sight of a madcap chase, at a friendly gorilla, at Talk Show Host Mike Douglas. The resulting movie is sometimes very funny. It also represents a waltz step toward popular acceptance by a performer tired of being worshiped by the few. Like former cult favorites Chevy Chase...
...psyched when I got her autograph. They all laugh at me, but I don't care--I'm going to have it framed...
...great movie, it's really zany. How can you not think that movie is funny?" After a short pause, she adds "I guess I like to laugh at stupid jokes...
...down on the edge of the stage and told "knock-knock" jokes the giggles would have been uncontrollable. The Hasty Pudding Show will continue as long as there are people who go to the theater to do what they want to do, which in this case is drink and laugh; as long as the alumni who buy tickets want to remember those college days, even if they weren't laughing all the time then; and as long as Boston and Cambridge people buy tickets to the show because they want to affiliate themselves with this "most illustrious" school. J.T. Wheelwright...