Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other nickname-is 63. Between fungoes he steals wistful glances at the kids in the batting cage doing the real hitting, kids who weren't even born when he retired. When he hits a ball over a frantically scrambling young outfielder's head, he gives a cackling laugh and shouts, "Bye! See yah later." An old man's revenge...
...copy, Off the Wall Street Journal is a worthwhile investment for anyone who thinks that the state of the American economy is something to laugh at. Among the funnier send-ups: a deadpan report on a failed takeover bid by the Mobil Corp., this time for Bill's Hoagie Stop; a slice-of-life jape about the current fascination with economic jargon, depicting a scatological barroom brawl over monopsony, diminishing rates of transformation, and the Laffer Curve...
According to Robert Vare, one of the project's editors, a key objective was to bring a chuckle or two to businessmen because "people in the financial community need a laugh so badly " If anyone misses the joke, Hendra is planning a future parody of a document so familiar that it can be found in just about every hotel room in the country: Not the Bible, to be published by Ballantine Books this autumn...
Since its infancy, network television has favored two big noises: bang bang and ha ha. This month no fewer than five new dramas and comedies deal with the policeman's lot. Only one of them intentionally offers the viewer anything to laugh at: Police Squad!, the best reason to stay home Thursday nights since Hill Street Blues moved there...
...Zucker and Jerry Zucker, who launched the hit comedy movie Airplane!, are in charge here, and they bring the same sophisticated silliness to such TV cliches as slow-motion deaths and freeze-frame endings. Not the least of the new program's blessings is that it has no laugh track. Appreciative viewers will surely supply their...