Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...person. It means that the person turns his back on much of himself because it is dangerous. But it is now clear that by so doing, he loses a great deal too, for these depths are also the source of all his joys, his ability to love, to laugh, and, most important for us, to be creative. By protecting himself against the hell within himself, he also cuts, himself off from the heaven within. In the extreme instance, we have the obsessional person, flat, tight, rigid, frozen, controlled, cautious, who can't laugh or play or love, or be silly...
...some of his political speeches these days, Spiro Agnew has a laugh line that goes like this: "I guess you've heard that Senator Muskie has taken a firm position on a major issue. He has set Dec. 31 as the deadline for the end of the year." The Administration's plan, reports Conservative Columnist Kevin Phillips (The Emerging Republican Majority), "is to hold Muskie's chameleon-like indecision and issue-flipflopping up to the spotlight-and even to ridicule...
...vehicles or the performers, but the sense of freshness emerging from all this wallowing in memory. That, precisely, is the delight of Follies. Superficially, its cast may appear to be just another line-up of Late Show dropouts; and its theme could have been one more excuse to laugh or cry at the kind of song and dance that dazzled a less sophisticated generation. But in its staging, and above all in its music and lyrics, Follies is astonishingly futuristic?more modern, really, than that calculated rock-beat ode to the counterculture, Hair...
...Hammerstein said that the really difficult word to rhyme is a word like day, because the possibilities are so enormous. One of the things I've learned is that the way to get a laugh in a song is not through the cleverness of the rhyme but by what you're saying. The biggest laugh in Forum is the line in the warriors' song: "I am a parade." That's a brilliant line-and it's not mine, it's Plautus...
...early nomination for TIME's Man of the Year is Lieut. William Calley, scapegoat of a war we don't know what to do with. What a laugh: convicted of premeditated murder [April 12]. All of us who called for those bomb-bay doors to be opened while serving in World War II knew we were going to kill civilians as well as military. And what about Hiroshima...