Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...belt buckle offends almost everyone except the Wanna Be's. Those who snoozed through the '50s the first time around are mystified. Some feminists clearly feel that Madonna's self-parody as an eye-batting gold digger, notably in her song Material Girl, is a joke too damaging to laugh at. Somebody has said that her high, thin voice, which is merely adequate for her energetic but not very demanding dance-pop songs, sounds like "Minnie Mouse on helium." Other detractors suggest that she is almost entirely helium, a gas-filled, lighter-than-air creation of MTV and other sinister...
...Georgia Square Mall in Athens. Regular strollers look out for mischief, pick up refuse and add a general air of bonhomie to the malls as they exchange pleasantries in passing. Indeed, the loose camaraderie has proved a welcome dividend for many of the walkers. Maude Harris, 74, used to laugh at the Georgia Square strollers. "It looked pretty silly to me," she recalls. But needing to exercise and feeling lonesome, she gave walking a try, and now does 1 1/2 miles a day with newfound friends. "We walk, and we tell jokes and have a good clean fellowship," she says...
There is not one honest, blue-collar type laugh in all of Rustler's Rhapsody. Director Hugh Wilson presents us with such a ridiculous wild west world that the movie becomes too stupid to be funny. Wilson interjects too many anachronisms into the dialogue and uses too many stupid sight gags. "I hold a copyright on that one," asserts Rex upon finding Pete singing by the fire. In another scene Rex and Pete fall off a cliff. Then we get to see Rex's horse dance. After a while--long about 20 minutes--the jokes wear thin...
...again. Choking with emotion, he went on: "All these children of God, under bleak and lifeless mounds, the plainness of which does not even hint at the unspeakable acts that created them. Here they lie, never to hope, never to pray, never to live, never to heal, never to laugh, never...
...generally admiring but not adulatory, as when he compares Mountbatten with Douglas MacArthur, his fellow Supreme Commander in the Pacific during World War II. The two Supremos were equally and supremely vain, is Ziegler's assessment, but Mountbatten lacked MacArthur's cold arrogance and "was endearingly able to laugh at himself." Like other congenital optimists, Mountbatten seems to have had a vividly accurate memory for events as they should have happened, but, says Ziegler, "though the truth in his hands often suffered a sea-change, he was genuinely surprised and upset when instances of this were pointed...