Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greener the comedian, the more he breaks up at his own material. As he ripens, his laughter becomes muted, his smiles iron out. But outside of rigor mortis, he can never approach the rigidity of the Great Stone Face...
...black athlete became a token Eskimo. Randall and Klugman also lose battles. They were embarrassed by the third segment in the series, which lost bits of subtle humor to give more time to a leering portrayal of Oscar hustling an airline stewardess. The actors condemn the use of canned laughter as "an atrocity" and fume at the network's excision of the characters' children from the story. Randall complains that "ABC Standards & Practices says that divorced people don't have children. In the play, the fact that the men had children placed the beam of heartbreak under...
...company highlight the story with a musical accompaniment that is both medieval and reflective. It is a fine touch, and Marie Kohler as St. Cecilia gives a concinving performance. Virginity, however, is no longer an issue, and St. Cecilia's efforts to preserve her maidenhead seem more fit for laughter than for pious reflection...
...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...
...trooped down to Divinity Ave. to survey the damage on that warm night, and he was not the only one to view the scene with an equanimity approaching amused resignation. Indeed the whole crowd-radicals and jocks, professors and police-seemed to be light in spirit. Smatterings of laughter and calm, friendly conversations among strangers were the sounds that dominated; it could have been an outdoor summer cocktail party or a campfire, were it not for the lateness of the hour, the fire trucks, and the wreckage one could see by looking up at the third story CFIA windows...