Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leer and to lecture. Nine to Five is a vile mess, but it may find its audience -the one desperate for movie comedy, the one that has made Airplane! and Private Benjamin two of the year's top-grossing films. Some people will go anywhere for a laugh, and Higgins will go to any lengths to get them...
Kundera's people face a shared dilemma. Should they try to remember, when the memories of happier times only mock the bleak, estranged present? Would it not be more sensible to shrug off the past, to laugh it away? No simple answers emerge...
...first act concentrates on basic, mundane gripes which the large number of people on stage repeatedly complain about, eventually overwhelming the audience. Most of the songs, especially "Lookin' Over From Your Side" and "Time Brings About a Change," utilize a song structure better suited to T.V. shows like "Laugh-In" where the chorus of the song comes to a sudden, stop and one of the people on stage tells a trite little anecdote...
...first act valiantly tries to bring the audience together to laugh at and to overcome universally shared day-to-day annoyances, but jokes about roaches and inconsiderate landlords can amuse for only so long...
...examined," he recalls. "They said he's noisy, raucous, obnoxious; he'll never go." They were right, except on that last point. Now in his 40th year, Woody Woodpecker remains a star of screen and television. Children in more than 60 countries recognize his taunting five-note laugh-done for three decades by Gracie Lantz, now 77. "People like Woody because he has no inhibitions," said Lantz at his bird's Manhattan birthday party. "If we did the things he does, we'd be arrested...