Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small fry, Mother Hadley waxes ecstatic over Europe's part-time-child-care facilities. "Accustomed to baby sitters who spend more time watching television than the children, it is one of the small joys of traveling abroad to be greeted by ... baby sitters who play with your children, laugh with your children, and watch them with a constancy and affection that I've seldom seen duplicated by part-time help in America...
Wade, in telling his story, made no attempt to explain how Oswald escaped from the building sealed off by scores of Dallas police. We leave that mystery to enter a new one. Why did Oswald, fleeing the scene of a murder, joke publicly about the murder? Why did he "laugh very loud?" Such behavior is hardly, consistent with 48 hours of consistent denial of guilt when in custody of the Dalles authorities. The laughter on the bus story seemed so unlikely that the FBI, in off-the-record briefing sessions for the press, conceded that it was untrue...
...scored on about 35% of his shots-not at all bad for a second beginning. He is a better-than-average comedian, and his best laugh really split the walls. "Fluoridation?" he said. "If I ever catch my son doing it I'll kill...
...little truck raced madly ahead, pausing momentarily along the route while men frantically plastered posters of Chou on walls and billboards. Adding to the general atmosphere of carelessness were a few streamers covered with mis spelled Chinese characters. Even scattered shouts of "Chou" from the sparse crowds got a laugh, since the name means "cabbage" in French...
Played with prancing, gleeful guile by Robert Preston, the role of Nat Bentley is as magnetic as sin. Playwright Ronald Alexander has surrounded him with zany astrologers of the marketplace-hack writers, foxy talent agents, dubbed-in laugh effects men-who cast horoscopes under the sign of the dollar to see if the public will prefer the TV story of a myna bird that refuses to talk or a chimpanzee that plays Lady Macbeth. The dialogue is more quippish than witty, but the hip mass-media-men-at-work lingo scatters the laughs over an occasional drab patch of script...