Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that epitomizes Loesser's direct style. Rarely was his music concerned exclusively with itself. The lyrics came first, and he proved it by the way he wedded his tunes to the rhythms of the words-by the way he always left room in his songs for a good laugh. Loesser also had a knack for turning the harsh into the lyric. While Guys and Dolls was still on its pre-Broadway tour, Loesser became fascinated with a line in Abe Burrows' book and decided to make a song out of it: The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game...
When the cast of the new CBS summer series, Hee Haw-a hillbilly version of Laugh-In-arrived at the train station to start taping in Nashville last May, the performers were paraded ceremoniously through town atop mule-drawn hay wagons. "We felt like such goddam fools riding down the main streets," recalls Co-Producer Frank Pep-piatt. "We thought there would be throngs to meet us, but we ended up waving to each other...
...Aldrin, the show's only acknowledgment of the moon was the crescent-shaped opening in its prime prop-an outhouse. Had the public outgrown that sort of thing? And would TV viewers be turned off by the program's shameless plagiarism of their No. 1 favorite, Laugh...
Besides a batch of one-act plays, mostly light "vaudevilles," Chekhov wrote a total of nine full-evening, four act plays. Of the first two, penned when he was 18, we know only the titles: The Fatherless, and Laugh It Off If You Can. At 21, he wrote the sprawling but remarkable Platonov, which turned up only long after his death, in the Soviet period. In his late twenties, he turned out Ivanov, a flawed but great and vastly underrated work capable of packing a tremendous wallop in performance; and the tentative, transitional The Wood Demon, which later also provided...
...attendants and doctors alike, the energy which is required to understand and help a patient. To see a staff working in the fact of these odds is impressive. There is a strong, gamey spirit among the staff; they know the frustrations of their work and they know how to laugh when the problems threaten to undermine their belief in what they can do. And if you can convince them that you are willing to work hard, they will take a chance on you and your ideas of how to improve things...