Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From the tropical jungles of Zaire to the snowscapes of Anchorage, the Pope has shown an ability to make people applaud, laugh, cry and sing. Shedding the reserve of his predecessors, he has hummed along on the folk tunes, or joshed the crowds who would not let him go. In Cracow, Poland...
...comics have jettisoned the topical satire of the '60s for a less political, more radical examination of the comic's relation to the society he entertains. The traditional comedian kept searching for the definitive belly laugh; the new humorist looks at the jokes, and the pursuit of them, with the icy disinterest of a social critic. As the subject of modern art is art, so the subject of the new comedy is comedy-the good, the bad, the unintentionally ugly. Call it the Post-Funny School of Comedy...
...from Dickson's anecdotes some sense of the excitement it must have been to work closely with Fiedler over the years, and feel the star-watcher's thrill at the Pops parade of brilliant guest performers; those who suffered through piano lessons and drillwork can catch the allusion and laugh at jazz pianist Oscar Peterson's assertion that his keyboard prowess can' from playing "lots and lots of Czerny when I was a kid." But what excitement and color come through does so painfully, in spite of Dickson's uncertain, cliche-ridden style and not because...
...articles for blaming the ubiquitous "they" for the problems of public education. "'They' are greedy, lazy, stupid, misguided, but I can never find 'them' when I go into schools. I find committed, beleaguered, inspired people who do the best they can to educate kids," Deal says, adding with a laugh. "I'm one of 'them,' and I'm not like that...
There is even a laugh or two among the 15 million pages of documents, 700,000 feet of film and 275,000 still photographs that are being catalogued. On display is the letter that Cartoonist Garry Trudeau wrote to Ron Nessen, Ford's press secretary, asking for accreditation on the Chinese trip. Trudeau took along a Frisbee, which he and NBC's Tom Brokaw tossed back and forth on the Great Wall until Susan Ford suggested it was not dignified. From such original research Trudeau conceived the Chinese adventures of "Uncle Duke" in Doonesbury...