Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ignore an inflation rate of 30 per cent, prices that prevent some 10 per cent of the population from eating meat, or an unemployment rate that does not allow eight per cent of the labor force to earn a living. The ordinary citizen seems to have two alternatives: satirical laughter, or despair...
Approving Bottoms. Between the wars-World I and II-Travers turned out a series of farces sketching a Wode-housean gallery of silly asses of the English upper class, alas unrelieved by a Jeeves. "They were quite good, but just things for laughter," Travers recalls. By the '50s, this collection of emotional still lifes seemed too pallid for the English stage, so Travers retired to the seaside to watch cricket. But when he was well into his 80s he decided to try again, and succeeded in broadening his vision and style without losing his comic bite, a feat that...
Suddenly the hall is filled with laughter. Rick starts frantically snapping pictures. Click, rewind, click, rewind, click, rewind--until the laughter softens. Then he takes the camera down from his face, and gazing at Caldwell, he breaks into a broad grin...
...Present Laughter. A Noel Coward musical, lots of light amusement. In the Kirkland House JCR at 8 p.m., April 29-May1. Tickets...
...figure in the annals of theatrical history. In this most fickle of professions, he could do it all. He wrote plays and musicals, and he acted in them. He proceeded in all his endeavors with the conviction that above all theater should be entertaining. At one point in Present Laughter Garry says to one of his amours, "You're in love with an illusion, the illusion that I gave you when you saw me on stage." For Noel Coward, the business of theater was to create that kind of illusion. The Kirkland House Drama Society's production of Present Laughter...