Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BRAZILIAN AUTHOR Ivan Angelo did not get bored with and laugh at his own words, their oppressiveness would send even the most patient reader scrambling for freedom and sanity. Laughter is, in fact, the reader's only means of warding off the cold, crushing force of the five interwoven tales of Angelo's recently translated book, The Tower of Glass...
...predicament. His artistry lies not in an ability to write pleasant fiction, but in his powerful ability to use an inherited form in novel ways. Angelo's book offers no repose to its readers, no chance to lapse into a happy understanding with the text. One can only laugh and skim through the pages, as the narrator does at times, or wrestle with the book...
According to Griswold, "Our [the Dins] music issophisticated in a crazy sort of way... We like tohave fun, we have a lighthearted spirit; we liketo make people laugh...
Well, Berke, give me a lightbulb joke anytime, I'll laugh along with the rest of them. But spare me your gross prejudices, please. Save them for your beer buddies. Go ahead and give them all the best lines--about how women who call themselves feminists are really sexually frustrated, overweight, undesirables who speak about hating men because they can't get near them. About how Gloria Steinem would look a lot better if she smiled a little more, and maybe wore a little make-up. How the problem with women today is that they're all too bitchy--they...
...such thing as paying too much attention to the bottom line. If you don't make money, you aren't going to make movies." Right now, though, the sort of movie that makes money--perhaps as much as $1 billion over five years--lasts half an hour, has a laugh track and is called Cheers or The Cosby Show. "Syndicating TV series, that's where the cash register is rung in this business," notes Anthony Hoffman, media analyst for Union Bank. "For the major studios involved in TV sitcoms, producing motion pictures is like playing polo on weekends...