Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...point. I did not catch a glimpse of the character from one end of his performance to the other...Mr. Gillmore followed every sentence with a forced explosion of mirthless laughter, evidently believing that as Prince Hal was reputed to be a humorous character it was his business to laugh at him...Mr. Tree wants only one thing to make him an excellent Falstaff, and that is to get born over again as unlike himself as possible. No doubt in the course of a month or two, when he begins to pick up a few of the lines...
...Proctor and Gamble" is one of the funniest sights ever, but I must agree that a case can be made for obscurity there). And the late 1930s parody, "Life goes to the fall of Western Civilization," is gone too. You had to know the old Life style to laugh at it, but it was so good...
...quite literally. The journalist escapes from the Jackson regime, and other residents of the hostel defect as well. But none can live without the church's comforting repression. All find their way back there quite soon, except the journalist, the eternal skeptic, who just has a good laugh about the whole thing. The Devil Is a Woman, however, makes a pretty flat cosmic joke...
...heartland. It's a good business for everybody. Just look at Jordan Marsh that moved in up the street." I ask him how long he has worked in this hotel and he replies coyly that it's been a few days now. His face crinkles into a silent laugh as he takes this information back. It has actually been 18 years, and business was better before they tore down the ship yard. The Navy boys made good business for everybody...
Sissela questions herself at times when many women would quickly seize the chance to charge sexism. In a situation where she feels her opinion is not being taken seriously, she explains with a small laugh, "The fact that I am a woman would not occur to me as the first possibility. I'd be much more worried had I done my homework, had I really prepared for this, am I being silly? But am I a woman? That would not come in as a very early question...