Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite his record breaking, the easygoing history major (B-minus grades) has never yet really been pushed, has finished some races looking back at the field with a laugh on his face. At the Olympics in Rome this summer, Burleson will get plenty of pushing from such stars as Czechoslovakia's Stanislav Jungwirth (3:38.1 for the 1,500 meters) and Australia's Herb Elliott, record holder of the mile (3:54.5) and 1,500 meters (3:36). Says the confident Burleson: "If I can keep within 20 yards of the leader of a race, I figure...
...reviewers: "Reviewers, if they care about the theater, will not be kind...kindness is the worst sort of cruelty." With a laugh she added, "I myself am kind. I could never be a reviewer. But Kenneth Tynan writes the best reviews today...I once asked him whether he thought up his clever phrases to fit the actors and he answered that the actors definitely inspired the phrases...Kenneth (Tynan) really cares and he is never boring...
...think I'm going to laugh," Miss McKenna said. "I'm not going to be able to help myself. All the directors and producers are having heart attacks, and most of my friends will have heart attacks soon. I guess someday I'll have one myself. It's a good way to go, I guess...
Author Huxley, 65, was one of the few guests seeking rejuvenation by trying not to lose weight but to gain it. At one point he started to giggle under his mudpack, and Anne Marie warned sternly: "Don't laugh. If you do, it cracks." Just possibly, what Huxley was laughing at was the fact that, amid all the scented oils and raw vegetable lunches, no one thought of trying Huxley's own recipe for longevity set forth in his famed satirical novel, After Many a Summer Dies the Swan. The recipe: a steady diet of carp...
Actors should not depend on applause, she concluded. A laugh, a spirit, cannot be planned. "And I didn't come here today to make you laugh," she added. "We just met. And that...