Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is, in fact, none of the pathos of the aging star about Mae, none of the desperate anxiety of the character played by Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard. Dressed in a white pants suit, her lips painted a bright, girlish peach, she is jollity itself. The famous laugh, which percolates leisurely to the throat, is young and vital still. Mae West is her own best invention, and no one believes in it or enjoys it more than she herself. "All I look for is harmony," she says. "If I argue, I get nasty, so I don't have...
...hall, Petric delivers what some will later say is his most brilliant and successful lecture of the term: an excoriating blast of the Arts at Harvard, Harvard students, commercial cinema, and even of human existence. (Petric: I was sitting up in bed the other night when I began to laugh. My wife asked, "Why are you laughing?" "Because life is so absurdly funny," I told...
...answers--Vlada Petric directs a questions to Loeb Producing Director George Hamlin: "Since you belong to this institution, do you plan to hire Mr. Serban to change a little bit of the theater we see here, which I find very conventional, boring and stale?" People gasp, some applaud, some laugh. During a reception afterwards, Petric tells me, "Two elderly ladies just came up to me and told me that I ought to be ashamed of myself" He says it with evident satisfaction, almost gleefully. He has made this criticism of Harvard theater before, and says of the institution, "Harvard does...
...Charles makes me laugh a lot. I really enjoy being with him," Sarah said, adding firmly that "there is no chance of my marrying him. I'm not in love with...
...people sitting thigh-to-thigh in a room designed to hold only a few dozen. The air is filled with a haze of tobacco from the grown-ups' chain-smoking. A grim Israeli soldier, armed with an automatic machine gun and a walkie-talkie, looks on as the children laugh merrily...