Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laugh when people compare me to a Billy Smith-type goaltender," Blair says of the New York Islanders' slash-happy netminder. "I take it as a compliment, because I figure I'm more of a Billy Smith-type goaltender because I play well in the playoffs...
...hate to break it to you folks but some of us can't help being women or fat and do not appreciate being insulted. Do we still laugh at racist jokes? (Obviously not, considering the general furor over the Dartmouth Review's editorial on Black students, "It Ain't No Jive Bro.") Then why do we still laugh at humor that degrades and insults women? While the editors of the Lampoon may not have had malicious intentions, there are limits to humor. Kamala Shirin Lakhdir...
...ratings will never approach those of Dynasty. There will be no car crashes, no steamy love scenes, not even a laugh track. Normally, that would be more than enough to prevent a television production from getting on the air. But last week, 42 years after broadcast coverage was first proposed and seven years after the House took to the airwaves, the U.S. Senate voted 67 to 21 to begin gavel-to-gavel TV and radio coverage on an interim basis...
STUDENTS WHO ARE not willing to spend thirty minutes suggesting what the council should be doing simply do not have the right to criticize its ineffectiveness, let alone laugh at its blunders. If the council is inefficient and lacks direction, it is largely the fault of a humiliatingly complacent and apathetic student body that would rather watch a sit-com on Channel 4 than bother to participate in improving student life...
...have to reinvent it to remind ourselves what we should not do? Should we reprint racist remarks to warn what we might revert to? And when racism was a more apparent problem than it is today, should we not have protested against it? Perhaps we are silly and being laughed at, accused of being prudes but think of the standards you apply when you laugh and try to wonder whether you can rationalize away sensitivity...