Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series Moonlighting. The critics applauded, and since it returned to the air this fall, the show has made several appearances in the Top Ten. "It was real hard for me to break out of that aloof-beauty thing," says Shepherd. "People don't seem to laugh at people who look like I do. One of the things I'm enjoying most is that it seems O.K. to laugh at what I say now." Shepherd, 35, has been moonlighting off the set. She earned critical plaudits for her steamy performance as Eula in this month's TV production of The Long...
...this wasn't another boffo prank by that laugh riot of a magazine, the Harvard Lampoon. The fake calendar was the work of the newest group of pranksters to hit Harvard with a punch line, the K-School Lampoon...
Even though Back to the Future takes full advantage of its ability to make us laugh, it has its darker side as well. The film opens with a shot of Doc's house in which every nook and cranny is filled with clocks--clocks that tick the future into the present. Time, in fact, enters into every aspect of the movie, becoming so pressing an issue that the small clocks in Doc's house are transformed into a huge clock tower from which he precariously hangs in his attempt to send Marty back to 1985. Back to the Future explores...
...family life is seen only as a remembered torment. The text is rich in humor, but much of it verges on the cruel or the macabre. The jokes are mostly preposterous self-justifications or savage put-downs of those near by. It is hard for an audience to laugh at Iceman without feeling it is further belittling these shriveled lives. Indeed, during a tryout at the Kennedy Center in Washington, spectators seemed to respond to the play's bleakness, not its raucous...
...Darlin" without sounding like a sexist throwback. He usually wore a plaid shirt with a red bandanna and a pair of torn jeans crisscrossed by the names of his favorite bands in black ink. He used to slap his thighs when he broke into his high-pitched cackle, a laugh that only comes from the South. When I first met him, he struck me as someone I had always known--probably from the Mark Twain I had read in high school...