Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wrong, that he was doing something he was ashamed to tell us. He had been very sweet to me, holding my hand, saying tender things. It was a sign of something unusual. But he was terribly happy and relaxed the last night. At the Copacabana, I never saw him laugh so hard. My guard was down, just as his guard was down. And that's when they get you, when your guard is down...
...piteously in love with the beauteous virgin Philia (Pamela Hall). If Pseudolus can secure her for Hero, he will receive his freedom. The plot tangles, twists, thickens, quickens, down alleys and up roofs, through brothels of spicy beauties and manses of spiky matrons, leaving behind a car nage of laugh-splintered ribs. Salve, Forum, et in arena hilaritatis! lo triumphe...
Foxx's delivery of such gag lines is like a rasp drawn gently across the funnybone. With timing that would take an atomic clock to measure, he teases a laugh like a yo-yo on the end of a string. A figure of grizzled aplomb, he can get up from a spread of ham hocks and pinto beans, then strut through a junky living room as if he were Louis XIV in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles...
...with a knowing smile. In the Shanghai Shipyard, I stopped to talk with a tall, clear-skinned girl carrying two heavy drills. After a few preliminary questions about her job, I asked if she was married yet. "That's rather personal," she parried. Then she answered with a laugh...
Robin Scott Wilson's "Gone Fishin'" projects an incredible mingling of cold war and black power ideologies. No classic science fiction fan could do anything but gape and laugh at a hero who is described as a fourteen-year old German Negro serving the Americans as an anti-Soviet, telepathic...