Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crazy Desire. "You look ten years younger when you laugh-you look fortyish," purrs the teenager. The man smiles grimly: "I'm 39," he says. As hero of this little-league Italian comedy that pits age against youth, Ugo Tognazzi plays, a late-maturing young businessman who boasts that he can get by with only four hours' sleep, though his physician deflates him by insisting that he needs eight, plus a nap after lunch...
...Lincoln," the new candidate cried, "would cry out in pain if we sold out on our principles, but he would laugh out with scorn if we threw away an election...
...with details that only the murderer could have known. Jean-Luc had told him, the killer reported, how he had run away from home after lifting 15 francs from his mother's purse. He was tired of doing his homework (his last assignment: to conjugate the verb rire, to laugh), and when he left his parents' house on Paris' middle-class Rue de Naples, he was wearing a tan corduroy jacket and carrying a Bugs Bunny comic book. He had a spot of mercurochrome on one leg ("I can no longer remember which," the killer apologized in a phone call...
...Like a Marble. "If nothing happens to upset that natural ability," says Mele, "Tony can be one of the game's great hitters." Only one bad thing seems remotely likely to happen to Oliva: choking on a chuckle. A gold tooth gleams in his constant smile, and his laugh explodes like a marble popping out of a bottle of ginger ale. Tony's English is still practically nonexistent, and he is just beginning to learn his teammates' names. "Big Powder," he calls fellow Cuban Vic Power...
Discussing the changes in the House system since the Class of 1939's days at Harvard, Owen said that people "used to kid genially about gracious living," but that now the response "is closer to a Boris Karloff laugh...