Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would not be fair to say that those responsible for Bug are entirely without resource or a sense of novelty, however grotesque. They contrive, for example, to extend the limits of black humor by turning a scene of a woman being burned to death into a laugh sequence. That this is done inadvertently only increases the merriment...
...movement. "Other minorities have everything to gain by demanding their rights," says one anonymous oil company executive. "We have everything to lose." Sometimes the most ardent anti-gays are actually closet homosexuals. They early learn the tricks of controlling facial reactions, feigning interest in the opposite sex, learning to laugh at "fag" jokes to keep their cover...
...handcarved teak bust that the host volunteered was worth $250,000. In the living room hung an original oil portrait of Provenzano's mother, which he said he had commissioned "to honor her." Noting that the photographer was sweating as he left, Tony Pro remarked with a laugh: "Hey, you think you weren't gonna get out of here alive or something...
...really suffered a lot," she says, and laughs at her melodramatic phrasing. "I'm not one of those people who think that you have to suffer to be a real person. But I learned a lot about myself about what I can do and what I can't do. And that's very valuable. I learned a lot about other people--their motivations, their fears, and their insecurities. And I learned a lot about television--not as much as I would have liked to." A slightly triumphant smile crosses her face. "And I also got a book...
Jaws's appeal is different from a lot of other horror movies and an afternoon of adrenalin-whirling escape. The difference is that it can really happen. While skeptics could nervously laugh off The Exorcist because, after all, what civilized person really believes in demons, no sane person can doubt the reality of shark attacks...