Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ritual "winner buys" lunch. Agutter's role is most difficult, for she is not given such an opportunity to step away from her job as walking chess piece. Only in the early love scenes with Jerry can she display any character at all, and there she can only laugh and sparkle, flaunt her yellow shirt and red skirt that are the only bright colors we see all evening...
...film's botched handling of a supposedly feminist message is only partly redeemed by its spotty ability to convey our awkward attempts to overcome personal isolation. Gundzinger does not love the builder but lives with him because "he gives me space and makes me laugh," and that is infinitely preferable to loneliness. In one of the movie's most subtly haunting scenes, Gundzinger faces her new future mother-in-law alone for the first time. Gundzinger has just thrown up, and is embarrassed. The older woman is embarrassed by Gundzinger's embarrassment. The two, who do not get along...
...That was my first exposure to the anti-nuke movement," she says, with a laugh. "Since then I have probably spent more time at anti-nuke rallies than I have in the Harvard classrooms. But the problem with the anti-nuke movement is they are just looking at a small segment of the problem. They are fighting one symptom of the problem, nuclear plants and arms. These urban activists, they can afford to focus in on one single issue," she continues. "But when you are out on the Indian reservations and you are sitting on top of all that coal...
PROVIDENCE, R.I.--In this case, the last laugh was definitely the best laugh...
...interviews on "Meet the Press" and frantically fighting off fervent supporters at mass rallies. Hall recalled phoning his campaign manager to ask him if he would attend to his fund-raising dinner. "He said, 'I don't know--I'm kind of busy tonight,'" Hall said with a laugh. Hall added that as a local candidate, he is forced to be his own campaign manager, press secretary, finance chairman and advance man. "As a Republican officeholder in Democratic Massachusetts, I'm something of a star," he said. The jovial exMarine believes the Massachusetts GOP "thinks I'm a machine. Whenever...