Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gunslinger of words, Tom Stoppard shoots to kill with laughter. Dirty Linen, with its insert piece New-Found-Land, is probably the most killingly funny play he has written, though it is also the slenderest. Stoppard's works seem solidest when built on an earlier substructure. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead may be the sturdiest because it is built on Hamlet, and Travesties the wittiest since it springs from The Importance of Being Earnest...
...will be the greatest one-term Speaker that the House has ever had," said Republican Leader John Rhodes with a sly twinkle. A roar of laughter rolled through an abnormally cheery House chamber. Just elected the 48th Speaker of the House on a straight party-line vote of 290 to 142, Democratic Congressman Thomas ("Tip") O'Neill replied with a good-natured dig of his own. "My colleague well knows I understand that he has his eye on the Speaker's seat," said O'Neill. "I am sure that is all he has on it." More laughter...
...morning Express, with no opposition to fight, is far more respectable, although its slogan?TEXAS' GREATEST MORNING NEWSPAPER?causes derisive laughter in the city rooms of the Houston Post and the Dallas Times Herald. The Express covers local news reasonably well and runs Columnists James Reston, James J. Kilpatrick and Jack Anderson. It is no better or worse than a dozen other papers in cities of similar size. Even Murdoch finds it "a little gray...
...lined notebook paper with pencil.' " That she and her mother laugh long at the memory is one more piece of the story they tell-a healthy piece. For anyone who sat out the parched family pieties of the Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon years, the sound of home laughter that laps all sides of Jimmy Carter comes as welcome as water...
...them gasping, and not in pleasure. For his audacity is irrepressible. It has brought much wrath down on his head from more conventional journalists, but this book serves as a reminder of how often Wolfe's refusal to be respectful toward any subject has produced both illumination and laughter...