Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They laugh a different laugh, though. It is not the easygoing laugh the blackies laughed. No, for when they laughed, we knew they were happy. They had to be happy. We wouldn't admit they might not want to accept our society, a society built on their sweat and labor. So we denied them their full humanity and we put them up there on that stage and we jes let 'em laff it up. We couldn't admit they were a problem...
...WISH they didn't want us to laugh so much. Admittedly, we can always defend ourselves. We can tell ourselves our laughter is being evoked only to demonstrate once and for all just how cruel society is. But it's an unconvincing argument. No matter how we hide it, it is the fags--and the fags alone--whom we are deriding. That's how audiences work. A few years ago, the musical Cabaret learned something similar during its Boston tryout. One mock love song between the ghoulish and decadent German emcee and a fake gorilla ended with the emcee assuring...
Without Laughter. In the courtroom, Percy comes across at first as a fit figure for ridicule-a shambling hulk (6 ft. 4 in., 250 Ibs.) of a man with baggy pants. But his opponents know better than to laugh. Foreman combines a superbly skilled legal mind with a brilliant sense of showmanship. In one case, he defended a woman who had killed her husband, a cattleman, because he had flogged her with a whip. As he addressed the jury, Foreman kept picking up the long black whip from the counsel table and cracking it ferociously. By the time...
...same chart. It is hard to see what solace or stimulation can be gleaned from the columns' redundant injunctions to "Avoid troublesome people" and "Try to get along with higher-ups." Last week the inane appropriateness of Jeane Dixon's March 10 message for Gemini was good for a laugh when Mission Control Center relayed it to Astronauts McDivitt and Scott (both Geminis) in Apollo 9. The sage advice: "Don't get into any disagreements today, and group activity is preferable tonight." But somebody out there is gobbling up this kind of thing; astrology columns now run in some...
Once formidable enough to blast Bonanza from its No. 1 Sunday perch, the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour has recently drifted as low as 47th on the Neilsen charts. Though NBC's front-running Laugh-In continues to get out spoken and risque material past its own censors, the Smothers say that often they are required to snip even the mildest material. On the disputed program, for example, Folk Singer Joan Baez dedicated a song to her husband, a convicted draft resister, with the preface: "He is going to prison for three years. The reason is that he resisted selective...