Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...daily La Stampa: "Along comes Pope John Paul and tells us that we cannot even desire our own wives." To Gorresio, "Wojtyla" was "attempting to deny the claims of sex even within marriage." In Milan's usually staid Corriere della Sera, Giorgio Manganelli sought to have the lust laugh. Life is so hard for the adulterer, he wrote sarcastically: an endless round of cover-ups, tricks, juggling of the daily calendar, and the need to buy "useless and expensive presents" for two women at once. Now the Pope has removed all these woes because "you can have infidelity...
...likes: "I'm a fan of Saarinen," he says, and "a couple of Frank Lloyd Wright works." Then nothing. He has no trouble detailing what the doesn't like. That's the purpose. But architecture can't hold his entire attention at the moment. With an almost embarrassed laugh, he says, "I'm writing a novel of all things." After almost 20 years of wading in the new literary form he helped create, he's abandoning it, going back to find the dream of his youth: the Novel, big game. Wolfe announces his new projects as if it were...
...George Brett really have hemorrhoids? Yes. And don't laugh, or you'll get them...
...contemptuous of the half-drunken mysticism of the Aborigines, now to be forever kept on the outskirts of a completely foreign civilization. Blacksmith seems at first to be the deferential pragmatist, the smiling farmhand, somehow above the almost ludicrous racism of his employers. When he's cheated he laughs his strange Aborigine laugh and goes on--he seems to sense the irony. One sees his opportunism as he silently smiles through an uncomfortable dinner with the missionary couple who raised him. The minister tells him that he should work hard, maybe harder even than anyone else, and that someday...
Surely those old gags would have gasped their last. How long can a comic repeat the same wife-ethnic-sex jokes and secure a strong laugh? If the comic is Henny Youngman, the answer is--a lifetime. "The King of the One-liners" has used the same schtick for almost 50 years--and it still works...