Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expertise. Pat Robertson's practiced intimacy, his instant if shallow friendliness, may frighten some. But it reassures others exactly because he is not theatrical or compelling (as, say, an earlier televangelist, Fulton Sheen, was). That breathy and winking chuckle we heard, debate after debate, did not constitute a last laugh by any means. But we are going to suffer that chuckle's soft abrasions for a long time -- for as long as we remain deaf to the alarm bells it responds...
...Having a Baby is the lack of old-fashioned grace in its leading performances. Bacon has yet to mature as a comic actor; he is still just a bouncing boy. It is impossible to take his grownup ambitions, therefore the subject of the movie, seriously enough to laugh at very much. McGovern, by contrast, is all pouts and whines; one could not blame her spouse if he strayed for real instead of in fantasy. Worse, Hughes' satire of suburbia is mostly as soft and comfortable as an old slipper. And his conclusion, in which he tries to work up suspense...
SNOW'S ability to laugh at herself urges the rest of the audience to chuckle as well. If she messes up a punch line, or no one appears to like the joke she just told, she is able to continue with the grace and style of a first-class comedienne...
...hospital, Laura said she watches television and movies on the VCR and plays video games. "I love the duck hunting game. You know the one where you have a gun and you shoot the ducks on the screen," she said. "If you miss, they come up and laugh...
...parties have wooed Iowa and New Hampshire more intently than ever, fearing that bad showings would cripple them before they could get to the South. And because blacks are so large a part of the Dixie Democratic vote, Jesse Jackson, the most liberal of the candidates, is likely to laugh last when the Democratic votes are counted on Super Tuesday, hardly the result the region's establishment had in mind...