Word: laughers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MacLaine's earnest intensity is balanced by a keen sense of humor and an unpretentious, often puckish approach to life. Dean Martin calls her "the world's best laugher" and has traded practical jokes with her for years. Konchalovsky says, "Shirley likes to play, to throw you in the water or to make a small device that falls on your head so something spills all over you." She has childlike fears: lightning and Chinese firecrackers. Until lately, she prided herself on being able to walk down the street unrecognized, if she chose, simply by changing the proud dancer...
...laugher but nobody laughed very hard. It was clear that one team was better than the other, though the score did not show how much better. The Harvard men's soccer team defeated an outclassed Tufts side 3-1, but the difference could easily have been much more...
HARVARD 35, UMASS 30--The Harvard football team is ready to blow the world off its feet. If the Crimson scores early this could be a laugher. But this year's gridders have never been behind, and your never know what will happen the first time they have to play catch-up, in the unlikely event that Harvard does fall behind, Jim Villanueva's experienced, and powerful, boot might be the deciding factor. Dr. J. did go to UMass, a factor that refuses to be forgotten. Still, it's hard to picture a UMass, victory...
...some callers don't just call "The Larry King Show" for its guests. Like any talk show host. King draws his share of weirdos. Usually he cuts them off. But he has a handful of regulars, such as "The Portland Laugher," a caller who never speaks, but only laughs into the phone. "I'll say, 'Sir, what do you think of President Reagan's economic plan?' and The Laugher practically passes out from laughing," King writes. One wonders whether the listeners do, too. Another regular labels himself "The Syracuse Chair," and claims to be the voice of the empty chair...
...gifts: a significant reduction in federal loan rates for farmers and an extension of credits to spur agricultural exports. The occasion was an all-star rally for 13-term incumbent Republican Congressman Robert Michel, 59. In the 18th Congressional District race in central Illinois, originally expected to be a laugher for Michel, who is the House minority leader, Democratic Newcomer G. Douglas Stephens, 31, a lawyer, is coming on strong. He has been effective at mining the discontent of the hard-hit farm and factory constituency. He has linked Michel, the President's point man in Congress, to Reaganomics...