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Word: laughed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...farce. Without the enormous price tag, it would be a great little unpretentious comedy. Had May chosen to concentrate on the Beatty-Hoffman chemistry and eliminated some of the contrived plot, the movie would have been less frantic. And cheaper. It shouldn't cost so much to make us laugh...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Ishtar | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

...OVER the world, people are getting ready for that warmest of seasons, summer. Except, of course, in the Southern Hemisphere where it is now autumn. But we in the North can well afford to laugh at their misplaced seasonalities...

Author: By Rutger Fury, | Title: Summertime Blues | 5/15/1987 | See Source »

Indeed, my biggest problem over the remainder of the performance was trying not to laugh, for the script was clever and the actors skilled. I managed somehow, and had my reward after the show. As I stood smoking a cigarette and watching the people file out, a friend from the audience came up and shook my hand. "You know," he said, "I've seen you do good work in other shows, but you were absolutely dead on stage tonight...

Author: By Richard Murphy, | Title: Chiller Theater | 5/13/1987 | See Source »

...weekend with the god of wine." It was a slide of an old woman, a beautiful woman, one with a lot of dignity. But apparently it is impermissible for women to age, to be no longer an object of sexual desire. So Elvis incited the crowd to laugh at this woman, and, to its shame...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elvis, Nudity: Good Taste? | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

While most undergraduates ignore or even laugh off the idea of a separate women's community, "there are women, a substantial amount, for whom that community does exist," Walsh says. She adds that as society moves farther away from the 1970s with the women's movement and the pressure for equal opportunity, "Women are going to see the need to rely on each other...

Author: By Grace S. Park, | Title: Radcliffe: A Fading Community? | 5/6/1987 | See Source »

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