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Besides the movie's constant-laugh screenplay, its biggest asset is the performance of Jeff Bridges, who seems to have found the role of his career in the Dude. The Dude lives in small apartment in decidedly un-chic part of L.A., in the already mythic time of "the early '90s," as the film's oddly anachronistic cowboy-narrator tells us. If pressured ever so slightly, the Dude will admit that he's a bum--but it's obviously a term that he takes some pride...
...Vaughn and literally for the President) is still out on the other two. I don't know what the antithetical proverb to "no harm, no foul" is, or even whether one exists. In these cases, maybe the closest we can come is "I don't know whether to laugh or cry at once...
...rules. While many of the inmates are guilty of terrible crimes, I believe our school system needs to drastically improve before the crime problem can be solved. I've told many of my tutees about my ambitions of one day becoming a prosecutor. Most of them laugh and ask, "Oh, so you would be the one locking me up?" Ironically, this tutoring experience helped inform my career ambitions. I believe in our criminal justice system; however, locking up thousands of criminals without looking back solves nothing. Prisons need tutoring, substance abuse and personal health programs in order to help rehabilitate...
...about plumbers, undertakers or Fuller brush salesmen. Hollywood is guilty of deliberate withdrawal from the living world. It seeks to entertain, and we suspect that the success of the withdrawal is what makes Hollywood funny. But let TIME Magazine view with alarm or point with pride, but not laugh off Hollywood's growing recognition of the fact that every movie expresses, or at least reflects, political opinion. Moviegoers live all over the world, come from all classes, and add up to the biggest section of human beings ever addressed by any medium of communication. The politics of moviemakers therefore...
Every single day for 50 years, Henny walked into the Friars Club and said the same thing: "I want a table near a waiter"--and every day I'd say I'm not gonna laugh, but I did. He was called the King of the One-Liners, and he had a million of them. Recently he appeared at the Friars Club in a wheelchair, and he reeled off 40 one-liners before even saying hello. Everything was a non sequitur; there was no continuity, but there was a rhythm. He once said that after he did 20 jokes, he could...