Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gangs and the culture of poverty in the slums of Mexico City. So, when in 1963 Bunuel announced that he was returning to Spain to make Virdiana, the Fascist government claimed a major propaganda triumph and leftists every where deplored Bunuel's sell-out. But Bunuel had the last laugh: although the government censors didn't realize it when they saw the film, Viridiana is a sardonic and ruthless attack on the role of the church, sexual morality, property, and social class in Spanish society, as became apparent to the world when it was shown at the Cannes film festival...
...trip to Paris by the journalist back in 1969, FBI agents arranged for a bug in his room at the George V hotel. The result? A befuddled agent's report that Kraft had spoken with a mysterious woman named Jean Monnet. "I didn't know whether to laugh or cry," said Kraft last week. Statesman Jean Mannet, now 87, is a founding father of Europe's Common Market...
...ensure her rest, but she cannot close her eyes. She starts talking to Tomas in bed about an incident where she was set upon by two men and almost raped. She found, to her shame, that she wanted to be violated, but her body would not permit it. She laughs, as if to dismiss this confession - and all it implies - then, out of control, starts to cry, then laugh again, then gasp through both at once. Soon she tries to kill herself. Tomas takes her to the hospital. There Jenny slips through a series of bleak dreams, fantasies of childhood...
...quite another to conclude, as TIME apparently has, that the matter is frivolous and involves no more than the right to laugh. The issue raised is not a laughing matter...
...Saturday night brings out the amateurs," my friend Morgan explained. I laugh, trying to envision Ted Mack among this sleek-satined, strobe-lighted decor. "Let's face it--disco clubs were a fad. They peaked maybe ten months ago. It was all over about three months ago." We are sitting in a small anteroom towards the front of the club where they serve a limited menu of hot foot. No one is here to eat and all the high-backed bamboo chairs are empty. A young couple, the man in aqua double knits and the woman in a gay flowered...