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Word: laughs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...husband, croaking "You are gonna love and obey!" as she pummels him. The rampant foolishness, indeed, may be part of the point. Audiences know that Abby's appeal is way low-down and prefer to chide themselves for enjoying it. As much as they may laugh, though, audiences could never put themselves down as hard as these film makers have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Old Debil Moon | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

...start filming Robert Aldrich's Hustle. But before she left Paris, she allowed herself to be used to promote her latest movie, Zig-Zig, by posing in Esmeralda's, an erotic saloon in Pigalle, one of the few locales where a girl can get a laugh these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 20, 1975 | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

...what her father does, and she pauses before saying, with a hint of sarcasm, "He's a log-cutter. And a grape-grower." Then she seems to wait for you to laugh...

Author: By Natalie Wexler, | Title: Harvard's Indians Are Getting Ahead To Help Their People | 1/20/1975 | See Source »

...hard advice in terms of "bucks" and hours, and mixed with engineering jokes about explosions and electrocutions. "That's a good way to get yourself blown up," Horowitz says as he modifies a circuit plan on the blackboard. His students, who had to fight their way into the course, laugh briefly but quickly return to their slouches and listen carefully, sifting through the secrets about studying stars, building stereos, and what Horowitz might have found on an apple skin the other...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: A Boy Wonder Finds a Home | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

...students were impatient again, and joked about "just pulling every plug" they could find, but Horowitz didn't laugh. He thought of how expensive replacing a delicate exposed membrane on the counter would be. It might cost thousands of dollars, money he and his grant did not have. He has never broken anything more expensive than a large Bell jar, but knows that he has often been more lucky than careful...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: A Boy Wonder Finds a Home | 1/15/1975 | See Source »

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