Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once we started talking about the list of things (read: demands) which the group wanted us to carry out, there were even some pretty funny moments--in retrospect, that is. I remember stifling a laugh when I heard demand #3 (or was it #4): that The Crimson spell all names of Third World peoples and organizations correctly. And I looked up at the woman who was reading the list and quietly explained that all newspapers try to spell all names of people and organizations correctly, and that we would be careful in the future but that we'd doubtlessly make...
Cornell then took the next two matches but it was Harvard's Jim Phills who had the last laugh. The sophomore heavyweight took only 22 seconds to take down and pin his Cornell counterpart...
...experience is as sad and mechanical as two hours with a lethargic masseuse. These days, too many comedies are in the hands of writers and directors rehashing tired formulas, retyping favorite old jokes, doing the expected. Funny thing is, audiences still do the expected too: they go, and they laugh. This holiday season, moviegoers are flocking to such putative laff-riots as Popeye, Nine to Five and the quartet of movies below. Maybe people simply enjoy sharing the sound of their own laughter: it's one of the few ways Americans have left to make a joyful noise...
First Family would be something to laugh about if it didn't completely kill any chance that a funny movie about the ridiculous people who inhabit the White House will ever be made. When the critics and studio accountants finish with this one, no studio will be foolish enough to bankroll a similar project until the memory of this film is dead and buried...
...Christmas Day anxious relatives and other angry and frustrated Americans were permitted to see only a fleeting-and heavily edited-TV film clip of 16 of the hostages meeting the monsignor and three Iranian clergymen. There was no sound track. While a few of the Americans appeared to laugh or smile briefly, the general mood seemed somber. Americans at home could only wonder: Why were there no voices? How did the hostages really feel? Where were the others? Fears in the U.S. grew again...