Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...know Berke, we feminists just can't take a joke. Can't laugh at ourselves. Just make a little crack and we get all huffy. Can't tease us for refusing your opened door, or insisting on splitting the check. A man's got to watch everything he says these days when one of those women is around...
...woman wearing a scarf over tightly rolled hair curlers, and toreador tights over troubled thighs, gave off a brassy laugh as she came across the nose art on a bomber called Whistler's Mother. It depicted a cigar-smoking tart with a mug of beer in one hand, a bomb in the other. "Now that takes me back," she said. "I used to know everything about these things, but that was three husbands ago. You couldn't ask me anything now." After the crowd had had a chance to inspect the craft up close, the show cranked...
While the concept of thesis writing makes lots of seniors cringe, Deborah C. Cohen's thesis makes her laugh. She's doing her History of Science thesis on laughter...
...Cohen put it, "The way you learn to laugh at life, that's the way to learn to laugh at vour thesis...
Remember those home movies your crazy uncle would show at big family events? Everyone would gather round the screen to laugh at Aunt Bertha's swollen thighs, smirk at cousin Damien's antics, and smile at Grandma Smith's sweet girlishness as she shied from the camera's probing lens. Everyone was thrilled and secretly proud and yet vaguely terrified to see themselves caught and fixed on screen...