Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alphabet came in handy?) The refugee, Joe, "a girl would giggle and I'd turn red, a boy would laugh and I'd bust his head; the worst-thing-my-daddy-ever-did-was-name-me-Joe" Dalton piped...
...real banker would probably laugh at The Moneychangers, just as would a doctor at Hailey's The Final Diagnosis, an auto worker at Wheels, or a pilot at Airport. Everything is close enough to believability to satisfy the uninitiated, and sensationalized enough, no doubt, to outrage real experts. It's doubtful that all bankers have "disciplined, steely" minds, as Hailey's do, or that single executives actually live in apartments with shaggy rugs and modern furniture and fireplaces and spectacular views of the city below, or that presidents or corporations are all egomaniacs who own private jets. These exaggerations fall...
...position and the opportunist money-grubbing that buys such status. O'Donnell's game is played by the Peabodies and the Woolworths, who cavort on stage, singing "We went and bought ourselves a lot of mystique..." The audience--Pudding members, patrons, and impressionable followers--love it. They clap and laugh at the lyrics thrown in their faces: Where the action is high-paced A million dollars can go to waste We've embraced its lack of taste Hey Whaddya say Lets all be tots in tinseltown today. On the Pudding's stage, this Hollywood 1930's parody becomes description...
...swooping over Cambridge, and by Robert Blake, Man of the Year. Blake, who says he's "never won nuttin' like dis before", leans out the window and waves to his teenage fans. After a while he is pulled back inside, and the window shut. Those within have paid to laugh; serious adulation is out of place...
...list a few of the by-products; newspaper subscriptimn costs shared dormwide, open doors, an unusually strong tradition of participation in house and college government, and yes, the "milk and cookies" whose misnomer contributes to the myth of the Quad as unsophisticated. River people can laugh, but we're not laughing, because it's rude to laugh with our mouths full. Not just with milk or cookies, but with everything from sangria and watermelon to beer to potato pancakes, at least once a week in every dorm...