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Word: laughed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eloquent, friendly 41-year-old tells the story of Soviet authorities who confiscated the camera equipment of western journalists as they filmed a hotel fire, explaining that they didn't want "foreigners to laugh at" their misfortune...

Author: By Paul DUKE Jr., | Title: Beyond the Cliches | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...million. Hope dared the magazine to prove he was worth more than $50 million. Forbes took up the challenge this year and after an extensive investigation into Hope's real estate holdings in California came up with a revised figure of a measly $115 million. Still, nothing to laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 1, 1984 | 10/1/1984 | See Source »

...seem intent on making another Porky's II or Meatballs II without offering any first feature to establish characters or situations. In the Bleeding Heart, the kids really walk and talk like kids, albeit somewhat obnoxious kids, but taste sometimes get pushed aside by desperate lunges for the cheap laugh, as in, "What's that smell coming out of your sleeping bag?" At times funny, the gross-out school gets simply disgusting at times: contrary to unpopular opinion, explicit vomit scenes aren't cute...

Author: By Clark J. Freshman, | Title: One From the Gross-Out School | 9/28/1984 | See Source »

...speculative way they regard each other, and then, again, they both begin to laugh...

Author: By Marie B. Morris, | Title: Inferiority Complex | 9/22/1984 | See Source »

...Friday to Lieut. Kojak, have given way to a new breed of lighthearted crime fighters, very '80s guys and gals who read the riot act with tongue firmly in cheek. The wisecracks are often tossed back and forth between a pair of mismatched partners, but these folks can laugh in the face of death too. (A cop on ABC's new Hawaiian Heat says to his buddy, who has just been lowered by helicopter to save his life: "Nice of you to drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Crime Pays in Prime Time | 9/17/1984 | See Source »

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