Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because the acting is ensemble, it seems almost unfair to mention an individual actor. "Seems" is not, however, nearly enough to forestall mention of Andrew T. Weil. The man could play a pumpkin seed and people would laugh. Roar. In Lovely War he is at times a German officer and at times a butter-tongued cleric. His reading of the German proclamation of war, in German, could not be done at the speed Weil does it unless he had two tongues...
...Laugh at Distress." Responding to industry and congressional pressures to cool the fight, the Federal Reserve last week took a small step to make it unprofitable for commercial banks to pay high rates for certificates of deposit; it raised the reserves that banks must stash away against large time deposits from 4% to 5%. That only infuriated the board's critics. "An invisible crumb from the rich man's table," fumed Chairman Wright Patman of the House Banking Committee, "a horselaugh at people in distress...
Over the years he became a polished comic who never had to resort to blue material to get a laugh. In fact, he was responsible for the biggest clean joke in theater history. As a speakeasy waiter in the 1927 musical Manhattan Mary, he hovered over a gangster who asked him what there was to eat. "Jelly roll," suggested the comedian, "or perhaps the gentleman would like some nice ladyfingers." "Ladyfingers!" roared the gunsel. "My God, I'm so hungry I could eat a horse!" Whereupon Wynn ran offstage and returned leading a full-grown sway-backed horse...
...laugh the gypsy...
...grind music accompanies the disappearance of the beard and a girl's voice pants: "Take it off. Take it all off." Gordon Bushell, creative director at Esty, Maura Dausey, intended Noxzema viewers to "get the pleasant feeling of being in on a joke. We hope the audience will laugh along with us-and buy a can of Noxzema...