Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past couple of months, Kahn has come out with some one liners, as jesters and wise men will, that probably made his boss laugh uncomfortably. After Carter had announced his wage and price guidelines, for instance, Kahn pulled an Andy Young, saying he feared the nation might be in for a "deep, deep depression," words an allegedly Democratic President would rather not hear from one of his top economic advisors. The next morning, Carter summarily dismissed the remark as "idle talk," but the inflation fighter was to be heard from again. On a T.V. news interview he captured the Administration...
...even in the dreariness of their lives the Garcias were cheerful. Garcia would laugh and smile, his beautiful wife would sing, and his children would play jokes on one another, their laughter defying the meagerness around them. Even when Vallet was openly contemptuous of them, taunting them because they owned no land, the Garcias ignored the insults and laughed among themselves. That they could be so cheerful with seemingly so little reason left an indelible impression...
...trees. The Garcias are probably doing the same. If it is daylight now in France, the family is out in the fields, working hard, just as they did yesterday and just as they will do for all the tomorrows left in them. But while they work, the Garcias smile, laugh, and sing, defying their poverty and sharing with each other the joys of the simple life that is the lot of the peasant...
...Senator from Minnesota, Rudy Boschwitz. Garn walked right by Boschwitz without recognizing him, then turned back and took another look. "You're so quiet," Garn told Boschwitz. "I was wondering, where's the Senator? And there you are." Replied Boschwitz: "Well, folks back home would have a laugh about that...
...absurdity, though, is not completely wasted--the scene makes you laugh, as does the movie. There are some very clever sequences which, more often than not, involve great gypsy rip-offs--Rosa and five-year-old Dave stealing a diamond, Rosa telling a fortune, Dave rigging an out-of-court settlement for a trick injury. Nor is it by chance that most of the funny scenes, and the touching ones, involve Rosa and Dave...