Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he looked at the exposed leg, a broad grin crept over his clean-shaven face. Oblivious of the girl's tortured movements, he beckoned his assistant over to the bed. "Mira," he said, and began to laugh. "El trabajo del brujo." The work of the witch. He pointed to the streaks of tobacco dye that covered the bruises on the girl's leg. An expert in herbal medicine in the girl's village had applied the tobacco in line with an ancient tradition that prescribes herbal cures for injuries of all kinds. The girl, her leg still swollen with...
...Cola, which opened last week at the Charles Cabaret Theater, is one long series of failed jokes. You sit and wait and wait for a funny one--with so many shots fired, surely one must hit the target, but somehow they don't. The tension builds. You begin to laugh at near jokes, ones that fall just short of the mark, worried perhaps that the others have gone over your head. And when, after an hour and five minutes, the curtain comes down for the last time you walk out relieved, as though the main task...
...slow and measured tone. I stood about 10 yards away, on the lip of the freshly-dug grave, feeling as though at any moment I might just tumble in. I had to conjure up all of my will power to keep from bursting out in a wicked laugh at this scene that in my condition seemed so ridiculous...
...pass and glance at him and his friends, the ex-soldier grabbed a bottle the man next to him was raising to his lips, and, holding it out, beckoned to me to come and drink. I walked over and took the bottle. The man in the center laughed mischievously, showing broken yellow teeth that seemed out of place in his face, which appeared so innocent because of the childish woolen cap he wore. Many of the men and boys wear this traditional protection against the cold. It looks something like the flight cap of a World War I flying...
...Alvin into the world without leaving its stamp on the boy; he may lack Charles's sense of the Barnumesque, but his candor is just as notorious. I give the first round to Charles just for getting Alvin to step into Kangaroo shoes. But the last laugh is on Charles too: even Alvin's presence don't make the A's more than a dark horse to take the Orioles for the pennant...