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Word: laughed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sure even the most laid-back Harvardian is aware. I doubt I'll ever get to say, "See that Golden Gloves Champion'that's my roommate!" I also doubt that I'll ever go to Metropolitan to see my other friend dance. But as long as I get to laugh at them while they try out their punches and pliés, and we all get to collectively learn a line dance in the living room, I'll be content...

Author: By Meredith B. Osborn, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Endpaper: Stepping to Success | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...they anyone else's? No Bedford Falls series has ever cracked the Nielsen Top 20; only thirtysomething (1987-91) lasted more than a season. "The highest rating we ever got," Zwick says with a laugh, "was the first 15 minutes of the thirtysomething pilot. The numbers dropped by the end of the hour, and they never came back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Boomer Bards | 9/27/1999 | See Source »

...Austin Powers himself. Quite the contrary, it is my belief that in his good-natured, if somewhat inept, international man of mystery, Mike Myers has found one of the greatest and most sustainable comic characters in memory. Myers as Austin Powers has that rare ability to make us laugh before he even says a word, and it is a laughter that comes without a hint of cynicism or meanness. Indeed, it is Powers' unending cheerfulness and excessive eagerness to please that makes him so appealing. In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Myers comes of age as both Powers...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and David Kornhaber, S | Title: I Know What You Saw This Summer | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...while he didn't fit in back in Bed-Stuy either. And nobody in either place took him seriously. It was then Rock first realized he was a comic, not a fighter. "I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious," he says. "It would happen a lot. So it was like, 'Gee, I've got something here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...used to always tell me he needed another joke like 'Bitch, paint my house!,'" says Mario Joyner, a comic and friend of Rock's. "He thought that was a big bit for him." Rock, frustrated that crowds wouldn't laugh, once poured a drink on a man's head. Clubs refused to give him much stage time, agitating him further...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seriously Funny | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

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