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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...famous line of failed jokesters, "you had to be there," applies to this film. Yes, the gags are stupid, but they are funny as well. Not four, bucks worth of laughter perhaps (it's difficult ever to laugh away a six pack), but for a matinee maybe. Catch Water some afternoon before it sinks, a time probably...

Author: By Thomas M. Doyle, | Title: Drinks, Anyone? | 5/9/1986 | See Source »

...pleasure of watching my golf ball finish--I can't see that far anymore." Throughout the tournament, he was forever asking Jackie, "Did it stay on the green?" Sunday, they conferred over putts like sailors gauging breakers. "Looks like the left edge," Jackie would say. His father would laugh. "How about an inch out on the right?" So they compromised and holed it. That was for a three at the par-four ninth. Nicklaus faced a 25-footer for another birdie at ten. "Oddly enough I felt comfortable over it and made it." At eleven, a 20-footer rolled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Master of the Fairway | 4/28/1986 | See Source »

Music on TV can obviously be enhanced by stereo, but what is the point of wall-to-wall sound for more routine programming like sitcoms? "In mono broadcasts the laugh track is flat," says NBC Senior Vice President Warren Littlefield, "but in stereo it sounds more like a live audience. The audience at home comes closer to the live experience." Others see a big potential for stereo sports. "Imagine getting the Indianapolis 500 in stereo," says Dennis Lewin, senior vice president for sports production at ABC. "You'd have the feeling of the sound as the cars came around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Breaking the Sound Barrier | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...comedy series with no cackling studio audience, no laugh track--indeed, almost no laughs? Forget it. A police show in which cars never careen through the streets, drug pushers are strangely absent, and nobody draws a gun? No way. A network midseason replacement that tiptoes into the little-watched time period opposite Dallas for an unheralded six-show run? So long, Charlie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Lonely Beat Joe Bash; | 4/21/1986 | See Source »

...people laugh at the busloads of women who come up to Boston, but don't forget that busloads of men come down to Wellesley," says Connson M. Chao '87, who transferred from Wellesley after her freshman year...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Two Tales of the Harvard Patriarchy and Its Exploits | 4/18/1986 | See Source »

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