Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keynote of the humor is gore. Even in what may be the funniest moment of the film, when a small white rabbit guarding a cave catapults into the air and saws off a knight's head (more blood) with his teeth, it's too disgusting and unfunny to laugh at much...
Then he begins speaking into the conversational hum. The students see him at last, hush each other, and sit quietly. Many break into soft smiles as he begins an anecdote reflecting American ignorance of Cambodian customs, and laugh out loud at the end. They remember why they signed on for a semester of late lunches. Their lecturer is Alexander B. Woodside, Young Professor of Sino-Vietnamese History, and his course is "The History of Modern Vietnam...
Professor Walt Rostow's letter [April 21] is a laugh. It is interesting that he, one of the main architects of our Viet Nam policy under President Johnson, admits that "substantial errors have been made." He and other hawks in high places were the promoters of the policy that got us more and more deeply involved in this tragic situation...
...Angeles and the gaudy madness that was nurtured there. He used Los Angeles, and particularly the tawdry glamour of Hollywood, as a perfect metaphor for the screaming end of many poor dreams of glory. West wrote with fury, but without rancor or condescension. "It is hard to laugh at the need for beauty and romance, no matter how tasteless, even horrible the results are," runs the novel's most famous passage. "But it is easy to sigh. Few things are sadder than the truly monstrous." By that standard, John Schlesinger's film is nothing less than a tragedy...
While calvpso singers laugh at them...