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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ronstadt, making her first entrance, a point at which she must sing Poor Wandering One in a way that tells everyone who's boss, heard their clamor and got the giggles. She couldn't stop. Rex Smith, on-stage with her, felt himself begin to laugh-a realization, this open-faced, 26-year-old rock singer recalls, that is not at all pleasant, but rather like that of a mountain climber who feels himself beginning to slide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hail, Poetry | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

...aimless dialogue does in Wanda June. Some lines are crisp--like when Ryan tells us that "educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch. Everything stops. "We laugh nervously as we wonder where the plot is taking us--and we discover the answer is nowhere. The world around Harold Ryan deteriorates as his wife, son, and friends leave him and he is left weaponless without his mind for his final battle with suitor Woodly. We watch Ryan struggle to salvage his own faith in himself. But, like Ryan, at the play...

Author: By Rebecca J. Joseph, | Title: Heroes for Zeroes | 3/17/1982 | See Source »

...Tardencillas spoke, the Foggy bottom p.r. squad couldn't help but whisper anxiously in the back of the briefing room and give their uncooperative guerrilla dirty looks. Afterwards, chief spokesman Dean Fischer tried to laugh the whole thing off, acknowledging. "You win some, and you lose some. "But what the Reagan Administration is losing quickly is any chance of convincing anyone that we should have faith in current U.S. policy toward Central America...

Author: By Paul M. Barrett, | Title: Theater of the Absurd | 3/15/1982 | See Source »

...Volcano and Son of a Son of a Sailor, released in 1979 and 1978 All three focused on the carefree life of the wooden-boat sailor, with references to Montserrat and St. Thomas and only occasional glimpses of the serious side of a singer usually photographed in mid-laugh...

Author: By Constance M. Laibe, | Title: More Than Margaritaville | 3/11/1982 | See Source »

...pretty story, but that's what makes tonight so special. A win tonight can end all the frustration and start a real New Era of playoff glory. Why in a few years we'll look at all those losses and missed opportunities and laugh...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: A History of the Ice Age | 3/6/1982 | See Source »

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