Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...these climbers have their value, if not to the camping stores than to the intrepid ones who get a good laugh at the expense of the new recruits...
...silly to condemn Whitney's stealing, compared to the huge size of the kind of "legal" stealing that goes on all the time; silly to laugh at or pity Whitney's faith in his worthless distilleries when this is the kind of faith so many successful capitalist ventures have been built on. It's only that Whitney demonstrates the last stages of personal disintegration for the capitalist, and may warn us, on a larger scale, of the no-holds-barred rapaciousness combined with childlike faith in the impossible that may surface in American capitalism's coming death-rattle...
...added--like one Athenian's wife disdainful "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn"--hit the spot. When one of the women asks one of the men if it isn't terribly hot outside, he answers, "It's not the heat, it's the tumidity." Not every laugh is as literate as that, but most of them will...
...camera is painfully close, and man, is he wasted. One brilliant critique of society (and here, the law, as he reads the transcript of one of his trials) after another, and all he can do at the end of each rap is give a beaten shrug and a desperate laugh and say, "Weird...
...thought that made it sound something like the American movement against the Vietnam war, though it's possible I'm reading into things. In any event, young people who did go through the Cultural Revolution seem pleased if you ask about it, but after the first laugh a lot of them shrug, as though it's a hard period to summarize. "We ran all over the country telling workers what to do and gradually losing some of our arrogance," one former Red Guard said. "I was on the train," said another. "There were many people on the train...