Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of shame had a positive side. Jesse always tried harder, teachers and coaches recall. Remembers Jackson: "People don't laugh at you when you get A's." But always there was a feeling of being locked out. Today Jackson still thinks of Noah Robinson as a hero. Occasionally he drops in on him, and he calls him on Father...
...taken time off from work to make the trip. As she spoke, a slightly confused swimmer began to splash through a third lap of a two-lap, 50-meter freestyle race; a coach, fully clothed, dived in to bring him back. It was a funny moment, and everyone laughed. Good manners tell you, of course, that you do not laugh at a mentally handicapped person's blunder. But this, it was clear, was different. The laughter was friendly, and letting it spill out was just fine; we were all family...
...Athinaion Theater titled What the Japanese Saw. The two-hour burlesque heaps salty abuse on Greek President Christos Sartzetakis. "The country was in a mess," mourns one of the show's comedians, "then Sartzetakis came along too. Is it possible to look at this fathead and not laugh?" Added to those insults were plenty of barbs deploring the President's allegedly pompous ways. What made the show SRO, however, was the fact that its two main actors had just been arrested, briefly jailed, then tried and acquitted on the basis of their performance. The charge: defamation of the presidency...
...loose last week in the baggage hold of a 727 about to take off from Atlanta for Columbus. It took an hour to corral the animal, and the flight was canceled. The incident might normally have been good for a chuckle, but Delta officials are in no mood to laugh...
...teenager felt rebellious, her mood may have reflected the tension between her parents. John moved out when Whitney was 15, though he and Cissy were never legally separated. "They'd laugh a lot," Whitney says. "And when times were hard, they fought, which taught me a lot about love and sacrifice. For a while they stayed together for our sake. Finally they realized that the only way for them to stay friends was to split. It was strange not to have my father there, but he lives just ten minutes away. Besides, even if you're not together physically...