Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...especially. Then in about ten years, or however long it takes for the American public to vomit up the last trace of the nonsensical sentimental myths Hollywood keeps pushing down its throat, Ryan's Daughter can reopen to audiences which will laugh it off the screen. Mass laughter is the only fit answer to such a retrograde monstrosity...
SUMNER REDSTONE knew he mustn't let them think him flustered. Christ, he thought to himself, no wonder Pusey's throwing in the towel. For every time Sumner managed another sentence, the crowd before him roared with laughter. For the life of him, Sumner just couldn't understand it. Was this then what Harvard had come to? Sumner could feel himself beginning to sweat. If there were only some way of short-circuiting the laughter, of turning it against itself. But Sumner could see no way out, and just kept on plowing headlong through the introductory remarks that had been...
...then what can you say about the story of a 25-year-old girl that died?" Outright laughter, plain and simple...
...Sumner Redstone cleared his throat, only too aware of the Paramount brass awaiting their introductions and the present Harvard administrators and his wife's eager friends certainly having the time of their dreary old Bostonian lives, and Sumner began his speech, only, to his horror, to meet with drunken laughter and then suddenly all he could see was some kid in a back row waving an empty bottle...
...laughter, blurred and distorted by champagne though it was, rang with not a little of plain old Harvard elitism and snobbery. And two hours later, when the film ended and the audience sobered up, it had turned into the sniffles and sobs to which Love Story reduces all its victims. For we could laugh at the Paramount corporate mind all we wanted, and yet still had to admit that Paramount had tricked us into seeing its film. And, luxuriating in the successful kitsch of it all, the makers of Love Story were hardly about to say they were sorry...