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Word: laughingly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gretzky,' it just doesn't feel right." After practice, shuttling teammates require his signature on posters and sticks for causes of their own. "But there's already a signature printed on it," he complains. "Yeah, but that's a phony, just like you. Sign it, you little jerk." They laugh brightly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Masters of Their Own Game | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...nancy" to his wife and a "festering, bunion-scraping little pillock" to the local GP. The cheery camaraderie of Britain's postwar Ealing comedies has given way to pig-eat-pig biliousness--which would be fine if Bennett (An Englishman Abroad) and Mowbray did not engage in something like laugh rationing. This is an Animal Farm that could have used a taste of Animal Crackers. --By Richard Corliss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Uneasy Riders and a Pig | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...Russian accents, the "Drowned Man" scene, in which David Angel employs a hilarious Monty Python accent, would have seemed more consistent. Other excesses of voice and gesture occur too much at random to be enjoyable and too much to be believably off-beat. In going for the cheap laugh, Goldman unfortunately loses his otherwise perfectly Chekhovian control and his sense of comic plausibility...

Author: By T H. Doyle, | Title: 'Doctored' Chekov Scores a Hit At Cabot | 3/15/1985 | See Source »

...overly zealous medical student, a demented energy is always present He also exhibits many of the characteristic excesses of the show. His weasel-like voice in the first and last scenes is a little too much, as is his constant stooping But his energy consistently gets a laugh...

Author: By T H. Doyle, | Title: 'Doctored' Chekov Scores a Hit At Cabot | 3/15/1985 | See Source »

Swimming the butterfly back and forth across Blodgett Pool as the sun rises all winter makes Egan laugh at the irony of the decision he made over 10 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Peter Egan | 3/8/1985 | See Source »

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