Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...They've got to kid their own eagerness," says Humor Consultant Bob Orben, who wrote for Bob Hope and Jerry Ford. Already Orben is spinning jokes about Glenn "peaking too soon" now that Ted Kennedy has withdrawn. Orben's business is booming. Without money, people can only laugh or cry, and they prefer laughter. Anybody who runs for office these days, says Orben, better have some good jokes. Just ask Ronald (have you heard the one about the pig with the wooden leg? . . . ) Reagan...
...this other thing she has: she is a very tough lady, she is uncompromising." After attitudes came makeup and dress. "If I were a woman, I know I'd want to be as attractive as possible. I get offended when I see comediennes dehumanizing themselves to get a laugh." But after enormous effort to turn himself into a fantasy female, says Hoffman, there came "the day I found I would turn myself down; that if I met Dorothy, me as a woman, at a party, I'd turn me down...
...will work again. That dream seems tantalizingly close for a 22-year-old paraplegic in Dayton. Using a computer-based locomotion system, Nan Davis, a senior at Wright State University, recently stood up in front of television news cameras, took half a dozen halting strides and said with a laugh, "One small step for mankind." Davis has been paralyzed from the rib cage down as a result of an auto crash in 1978, on the night of her high school graduation...
...ugliest woman I ever saw in my life! The girls taught me how to look after myself so that I was hip when fellows would come to me and tell me they were going to buy me clothes and make me a prostitute. I could laugh 'em off. I knew more than they did, I betcha!" Inoculated against the vices she witnessed, Hunter never smoked or drank and saved a nickel of every dime she earned. Every week she sent her mother, whom she revered, a portion of her paycheck. Finally, her mother told her to stop...
Although the calendar--which recently went on sale in Boston. New York City and throughout Connecticut--was intended to make people laugh, Rothman and Becker have received angry complaints from several feminist groups at Yale...