Word: laughingly
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...question," she told me in a laugh. Besides, she said, the metro doesn't give receipts. Pressing two worn five dollar bills into my hand, she told me to go catch...
...lunch hour in downtown Tampa, Fla., and a team of paid petitioners is doing a brisk business signing up opponents of affirmative action. "White men love it," Gloria Brown, the bubbly grandmother heading up the petitioners, says with a laugh. "They might already have walked past me, but when I tell them it's anti-affirmative action, they come back and sign." But Brown is also getting plenty of signatures from white women, Hispanics and blacks...
Surely, one will get a few laughs out of The Dinner Game, particularly at the fast-paced onset of the film, but all too soon the true tragedy of the movie sets in. Pignon is a nice person, it feels bad to laugh at him, and in the end he doesn't disprove the fact that he's an idiot at all, but rather has perhaps pointed out the audience's idiocy: laughing during a movie that is more tragic than it is comic...
...scare us. Scream makes a virtue of this, as it winks at every silly clich of the genre. This movie terrifies, however, with ordinary things-piles of rocks, bundles of twigs. Since similar objects appear in many shots, the menacing presence never seems to leave. And we can't laugh off our fears, so the tension doesn't dissipate...
Sometimes it is good to laugh, and at other times it is good to simply have a comfortable chair. It might be hard to find the latter in the old-timey Hasty Pudding Theatre, but the former will be in happy abundance as of tonight...