Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lacks laconic effects - nothing too beautiful: storytelling rather than elocution. His preferred tools are the chain saw, the ax and the blowtorch, with which he "paints" areas of sooty shadow into the wood. This scorching makes his pieces look even more like visitors from Down Below. You can laugh at the devil, but not too hard or long...
Mondale's interpretation is that he is finally scoring with his attacks on Hart as being naive, inexperienced and vague on the issues, epitomized by his question about Hart's new ideas: "Where's the beef?" That line drew a big laugh when Mondale first used it in a TV debate in Atlanta Sunday night and immediately became the war cry of the former Vice President's campaign (see box). Addressing his campaign workers in Washington two nights later, Mondale asserted, "I've come back into the race because people asked the one question that...
...over the past decade to the hazard of assassination attempts and kidnapings. Their homes have been surrounded by high walls, barbed wire and searchlights, and the richest among them move about town in armored Cherokees, accompanied by bodyguards. These vehicles have come to be a status symbol, and Salvadorans laugh at the many parvenus who buy them not out of fear for the guerrillas but because of a desire to seem important. Most of the residents support the ultraright ARENA party, and the majority campaign actively for the candidacy of Major Roberto d'Aubuisson...
UNFORTUNATELY THERE JUST AREN'T enough moments in Android where the humor comes to the surface. This sort of parody would work much better or an outrageous level--as in Airplane, where things are so stupid, you have to laugh at them. Android instead comes across as an overblown premiere of a sci-fi television show, whipped up just in time for fall previews, with silly cardboard sets, silly stock characters, and lots of pointless footage...
...break into the pages of little magazines in the U.S. such as Stories and Pequod. Back in the Soviet Union, Shtern recalls, magazine editors regularly dispensed praise along with the inevitable rejection slips. "Bring me some more stories," one editor told her. "Then we can have another good laugh together...