Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME'S Houston bureau chief in 1968-69 and covered Apollo shots 6 through 13. At Cape Kennedy last week, Golden and Neff found the launch site's jammed press bleachers more than faintly reminiscent of a class reunion. "There's always plenty of backslapping and laughter," says Neff, "but when those rockets fire up, the oldtimers are as wide-eyed and awestruck as kids at the circus...
LENNY (61). Lenny Bruce had his unappetizing characteristics, but taking sex and scatology as his texts, he hurled thunderbolts of laughter at moral and social hypocrisy, and enlarged the scope of freedom. In the title role, Cliff Gorman gives a Herculean performance...
...NANETTE (204). Long, long ago, it used to be said that good Americans went to Paris when they died. Nowadays they go to No, No, Nanette. It's a nice place to expire-with nostalgia, laughter and the ultimate in escapist foofaraw. One can only hope that they gild Ruby Keeler's shoes for the Hoofer's Hall of Fame and vote Patsy Kelly the Most Amusingly Insolent Maid of the Century. To Helen Gallagher, and Bobby Van, let's just say, "Thou swell...
...died with a steel-tipped hunting arrow in its breast. A pregnant reindeer miscarried after firecracker-hurling youths bombed the frantic animal into convulsions. Visitors have been observed dropping lighted cigar butts on the backs of alligators, watching the ashes burn through the reptiles' skin, then breaking into laughter when the alligators reacted to the severe burn. Finally, the zoo's male hippopotamus choked to death last week after someone responded to the hippo's open-mouthed begging for peanuts by rolling a tennis ball down its throat. The zookeepers were left to wonder whether...
...first week of my freshman year at Radcliffe, our dorm residents held an introductory meeting to announce that five girls had been raped on Garden Street and we should please never walk through the Common at night without an escort. This warning was met with nervous laughter and pseudo-sophisticated scorn. Everyone continued to walk defiantly through the Common, whether attended or not, no one got raped without at least first giving her consent, and when, that spring, a man wandered off the street into Jordan J and stabbed a girl with an ice-pick, only...