Word: laughed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...very little comedy, a great many mannerisms, and none of the sentiment that Noel Coward used to employ to make things come right at the final curtain. Betrayal must be understood, then, as a critique of a theatrical style and of unthinking audiences who have been having an amoral laugh and a tickle with it for years...
...although The Marriage makes no pretensions to be more than a simple comedy, it won't bore those who have graduated from fairy tale. The play is genuinely funny; the humor never drags, and only one or two bad puns seem more deserving of a groan than a laugh. There may be much to explain, but there's plenty to enjoy...
...really the team character, Vicki really does her own thing: she does whatever she want to. And that's what's so great: she's so remarkable at getting people to laugh and respond to her" --Alex Lightfoot...
...story of School Bus Driver Gloria Arsenault and the pot-smoking students whose bus service was suspended is not something to laugh about [Jan. 17]. The parents who provided the offending children with rides showed a lack of respect for both the school system and the town police. These parents have no one to blame but themselves for the decline of our public schools...
...early teens Moore learned how to win affection, and the lesson has dominated his life: people like to laugh, and they love those who can make them do so. Having discovered that vintage truth, he became the class clown. Says he: "I think it's every comedian's story." He was developing another crowd-pleasing talent as well; he was a fine pianist who concocted melodies easily. He vaulted over the class barrier by winning a scholarship in music to Oxford; by the time he left with two degrees in 1958, he was an accomplished Garner-style jazzman...