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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both Cheech and Chong agree that much of their humor comes from watching other people in funny situations. "We're a good audience, shopping cart people can make us laugh for days." Putting together material is a lot like forming a band, says Cheech. "It's really a joy when you can find a good bass player...

Author: By David Frankel, | Title: Living on Spongecake | 7/18/1980 | See Source »

Airplane! is about as funny as you want it to be If you go ready to laugh at sight gags--control tower operators playing pong basketball on radar screens--some genuinely racist humor--in the form on two men speaking "jive"--and endlessly repeated jokes--"Surely you must be joking." "I told you not to call me Shirley."--then you'll enjoy the film. But don't go expecting Woody Allen or even Mel Brooks--there's something very anticlimatic about this film after all the media hype. As in most films where the plot is the background...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Beneath the Planet of the 747s | 7/15/1980 | See Source »

...know any family where the children's life-styles are the same as the parents'," she says. "I mean, generations are different, and times change." Patti remains totally uninterested in politics. When asked which party she has registered in, she pauses, gives a nervous laugh, glances at the nearby Reagan aide. "Uh-independent," she says. "That means I can vote either way, right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Unknown First Family | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...rupture are the one separating the two lowest lumbar vertebrae and the one separating the last lumbar from the sacrum, the next lowest region of the spine. The dislocated material often pushes against the spinal nerves, which are extremely sensitive to any pressure. The slightest movement, even a laugh, can trigger an excruciating wave of pain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Aching Back! | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...LAUGH, if you will, that another writer has decided American popular culture is in retrograde. Giggle, if you must, at the thought of a 19-year-old yearning for the good old days. And then go fly a kite. Or soar up a chimney, or jump through a chalk painting on the pavement into a land of animation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Bombs | 7/4/1980 | See Source »

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