Word: laughingly
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...Apple staff members in Japan can laugh today, it is because the company has succeeded in dramatically reversing its fortunes there during the past four years. Since 1989 Apple has increased its market share in Japan nearly fivefold, to 5.4%, selling 120,000 machines in 1991. That is still small compared with giant NEC, which controls more than 50% of the personal-computer market in the country, but Apple hopes to reach a 7% share and sell 50% more computers this year, for $500 million. Maneuvering its way among behemoths like NEC, Fujitsu, IBM and Toshiba is no mean achievement...
...redeem Buddy in the viewer's eyes? Why does the film go so moist just before the final punch line? Any Buddy could tell you: because kitsch is not just an anagram for shtick. In comedy the two are soul brothers -- the entertainer's way of saying "Love me, laugh with me, laugh at me, hate me, then forgive me and love me all over again...
Holy Cross was so dominating because it was (don't laugh) a very good team. Very good. National championship good, except Holy Cross wouldn't allow its players to play in the post-season playoffs...
...Saturday Night entertains you because you laugh at what would otherwise be considered an obnoxious demeanor on the part of Young. This quality draws Annie Wells (Helen Hunt) to script his comeback in spite of the fact that he brutally insults her at their first meeting...
...boss of nothing!" "Where were your brains -- your rear end?"). At the end of each episode, the audience selects a victor. But it matters little: the prize in either case is a "second honeymoon," so the couple can make up -- or, more likely, share a good laugh...