Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME'S account of my college lectures [April 11] recorded that I laugh at my own jokes (and I do), but neglected to mention that audiences laugh with me, and louder. TIME'S account recorded the opinion that I was unfair to students; it neglected to mention that I often am given standing ovations by students. TIME recorded that I am no longer considered a liberal; it neglected to mention that I was given honorary degrees at two liberal colleges this year (Rollins and Ursinus). TIME recorded, regretfully but with unquenchable hope, "Capp so far has never been...
...also assured Pastore's Senate Subcommittee on Communications that he would police his air waves with renewed vigilance. Despite the assurance-or perhaps because of it-the Smotherses' April 6 show was studded with gibes at Pastore, both from Tom and his guest, Dan Rowan of Laugh-In. Rowan awarded Pastore ("Pastore-P-a-s-t-o-r-e") the "fickle-finger-of-fate award" for "keeping up the good work." As one CBS official put it privately last week, "Tommy had been sticking his finger in the network's eye and something had to be done...
...advertising agencies and show-business offices. Such top restaurants as Chasen's in Los Angeles and the Colony in Manhattan, both of which used to ban pants from their premises, no longer turn them away. Arriving at New York's 21 last month, Comedienne Judy Carne of Laugh-In well knew that her tunic-topped pants suit was unacceptable. With a photographer recording the scene, Judy thereupon slipped off her pants, left them at the checkroom, and stalked past the maitre d' suitably dressed in her tunic only-in fact, the miniest of miniskirts. Next...
Greetings is doom comedy about searching amidst chaos, and the half-assed things young people do when they are confused. It's a good film. There are a lot of funny lines, and I laughed very hard. But someday we won't laugh about the draft, the Kennedy assassination, Lyndon Johnson, Vietnam, or perverse sex. Someday Greetings will remind us of a time when we got hip, and made a Heaven out of a national Hell, but got debased, and arrived at something which was just a new hell all over again...
...with rising popularity (both shows have in the past topped ABC's That's Life in the ratings), promises to make the TV newsmagazines network fixtures. If the trend continues, TV news may finally find its place as a marketable commodity, turning out jokes as well as Laugh-In, making satiric thrusts as well as Gomer Pyle...