Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...PLAYING DUMB): I dunno. [Laughter.] I started and then that was it. It went on for a while and then it stopped. [Convulsive laughter.] I'm waiting to see perspiration...
...LYING SMUGLY): No. [Laughter...
...Jesse Birnbaum. I'll be darned. [Laughter.] I've seen you night after night, and you look so wonderful. [Laughter.] And here I see you in person, and it's amazing what the camera does to people. [Laughter...
...ones you mentioned. I made one called How to Avoid It. It was a medical film, actually. [Laughter.] In another, I played a Nazi?a show about what they did with prisoners. I got the part because I had memorized an obscene German limerick somewhere in high school, and I recited it as an audition. [Laughter.] And I said it at some point in the movie, and to this day, when that movie plays in Stuttgart, the audience breaks up. [Laughter...
...quintessential Nash appears in "One Man's Opiate," published late last year in The New Yorker. In it, he brings off an excruciating knock-knock joke in French-en route to his conclusion about the uses of laughter in the gloomy present: "In this age penumbral,/Let the timbrel resound in the tumbrel...