Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spring of 1981, when Reagan was shot, and the summer of 1982, when her father's lengthy illness ended in his death, are still missing. Now a size four at 105 Ibs., she appears more fragile than ever. But these sessions no longer make her tense. Now the laugh is genuine rather than defensive, and she spars with ease. When the subject turns to her husband's re-election plans, she says sweetly, "Would you like some jellybeans...
DIED. Joan Hackett, 49, elegant, intense actress best remembered for her first film role, as a neurotic Vassar graduate in The Group (1966), and one of her last, as an aging narcissist in Only When I Laugh (1981); of cancer; in Encino, Calif...
...last football game. The Band's reaction: to announce that President Pusey had declared a quarantine at the Harvard goal line, instructing that any Dartmouth player with an offensive weapon be forcibly seized. In probably the most dangerous week of the world's history, we had our first laugh--at the Commander in Chief's expense...
...political essays, by and large, Buckley advances logic and evidence to support his arguments. Such is the intellectual Buckley. In Overdrive, this Buckley yields far too often to the patrician Buckley. For years when Buckley ran support for the outcast Republican right, one could still laugh at his jokes, marvel at his elegance (some say arrogance) and appreciate his steadfast defense of conventional conservatism. Sometimes it could appear almost comical, the notion as he presents it, that a naturally egalitarian society could better itself by arbitrarily endowing some minority with excess wealth. But the patrician Buckley, by fueling liberal notions...
...hodge-podge of avant-garde theatricality. He sacrifices crucial substance for a vapid style, believing his messages can still come across. The last scene seemed comical to much of the audience, but watching Sellars stare intently and emotionally at the stage, one quickly realized this was no farce to laugh at but serious stuff. Only...