Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When George Carlin rose to fame in 1972 with his album "Class Clown," his route was not nearly as painful as Bruce's had been. While Carlin provokes some laughter on his record by poking fun at the Catholic, Church's elaborate dogma, the album as a whole seems to be oriented towards the innocuous and forgettable thesis, "Wasn't it fun to be a kid?" Carlin is certainly successful in making people laugh, but there is no catharsis in recalling All Those Great Jokes everybody used to pull in grade school--gags like "the artificial fart under...
...idea that the air at Grottonwood has been filled with peals of laughter the last couple of weeks, though. Distance running is tough to begin with, and this is the worst part of the grind...
...parabola of the Porter career is one beloved by backstage biographers. As Brendan Gill's brisk, uncritical Cole showed, the life was filled with laughter, tragedy, a soupçon of scandal and above and below all, money. For unlike the customary theatrical melodrama, Cole's life progressed from riches to riches. Schwartz's Cole Porter is marred by ungainly prose, but its detail is copious and its story irresistible...
Humorist H. Allen Smith, a longtime friend and fellow jackanapes who died last year, records these contradictions with bemusement and affection. He attempts to separate Fowler facts from Fowler fiction, but it does not really matter. As was Fowler himself, this parting toast is full of warm summertime laughter...
...former President yet recorded. Some of the old boys from the Ford team trooped into the board room of the American Enterprise Institute on 17th Street and gathered round the chief just the way they used to do it in the real Cabinet Room. There was a little more laughter this time, but then Ford called them to order and asked them, one at a time, for a thumbnail report on the state of the world in the areas they had controlled in more glorious days. 'Tin delighted that the Carter Administration has adopted your aircraft-noise program," Ford...