Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This past week parodies of two of the country's rags rolled off the presses to a chorus of laughter and snores. First, The New York Times hit the streets for the first time in nine weeks--in the form of "Not The New York Times." Millions roared. Then The Crimson was rather poorly copied by some undersexed Black Angus cows from the north who are lower than a snake's belly in a wagon rut, as my roomate says. Millions yawned...
While the play might be assumed to be profeminist, most of the laughter it arouses in the audience stems from trading on stereotypical masculine prejudices. Viewing an obscene film involving a pornographic film maker, one of the Justices says of Justice Loomis' presence that it is "like having a nun at a stag party...
...answers, which varied, were often attended by boos, hisses, and laughter, depending on the candidate's wit and politics...
...very different sort of one-man show has just opened this past Monday. Victor Borge, the "piano prince of comedy", sings, jokes, and plays --you guessed it-- his piano. Go; join the legion of Borge fans as you sink in laughter over the man's routines. At the Colonial; call...
...John Paul style was etched on the memory most characteristically by his few papal audiences. He dropped the formal "we" and the intellectualized addresses of Paul VI, and inaugurated an era of laughter. In his last audience last week, John Paul interviewed young Daniele Bravo by microphone while 10,000 people listened in. John Paul: "Do you always want to be in the fifth grade?" Daniele: "Yes, so that I don't have to change teachers." Laughter. John Paul: "Well, you are different from the Pope. When I was in the fourth grade I was worried about making...