Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another lad begins to laugh, but the laugh quickly plummets into uncontrollable hysteria; he smashes a small Christmas tree to the floor and slams his hand against a windowpane. Three other tiny boys clutch at Poulin's legs, shrieking, and try to bring him down. After an hour and a half Poulin calmly dismisses the troop; the boys are taken back to other classrooms by school aides. "This was nothing," he sighs. "You should see the action when I take the boys on trips. You go into the woods and every time you go hunting...
Made for Each Other is the fitfully funny chronicle of their perhaps inevitable love affair. The trouble is that every ethnic stereotype that they represent is milked for every obvious laugh...
Beatty's nervous, sardonic energy gives $ some much needed momentum and at least a modicum of charm. As the hooker, Goldie Hawn displays her familiar Laugh-In mannerisms with witless bravado. She is suffering from a terminal case of the cutes...
...live with them ever after. The plot is a hilarious failure, but the robbery makes such a scandal that Grandma sends Lucia back to her mother. Lucia arrives in a glow, triumphant. "Mother, I love you. I'm home." Mother, just out of a mental hospital, begins to laugh hysterically...
...underlie much of the book. "Adults demand that children understand what they're trying to say," Betsy Drake points out, "but too often they interpret a child's most serious moments as stupid or cute or funny. So children, in self-defense, learn to play for the laugh. It's a style of craziness, a style of survival, a style of distancing. I learned this style as a child but I'm not really impressed with my comic or ironic side. I'd much rather write straight out of despair...