Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basically agree with Critic Richard Schickel's review of Neil Simon's movie Only When I Laugh [Oct. 5]. I too found myself "strained" by the bombardment of simplistic one-liners and disappointed by the film's lack of substance. However, I thought Mr. Schickel's attack on Neil Simon and Marsha Mason downright vicious. Marsha Mason does possess the very "natural charm" that Mr. Schickel says she lacks. In a masterly way, she portrays a vulnerability and human fallibility with which so many of us can identify...
James Tobin, 63, likes to joke about himself as "a discredited Keynesian," in reference to his economics hero, John Maynard Keynes. Last week the mild-mannered Yale economics professor got the last laugh. In Stockholm, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that it was awarding him the 1981 Nobel Prize in Economics. Tobin thus becomes the tenth U.S. citizen to receive the prize since it was first awarded...
After five weeks of sifting facts from your gibe-infested articles, I thought I was becoming more and more indifferent to your impudent tone towards non-radicals. The "welcome" to The Salient was so ridiculous that I just had to write and thank you.... it was my first laugh...
...then there is Exhibit B--the turnovers. Yeah, you can look at Cornell's seven fumbles and laugh, but what really killed the Big Red was coughing up the ball on its own 10 and 24 with a fumble and an interception on consecutive third-quarter possessions...
...Wall Street has the last laugh...