Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...comfortable conference room where reporters were waiting to watch the program, laughter broke out. The picture on the color television set remained blank, but the voices of the candidates came through clearly on the loudspeakers...
...Laughter from all sides...
...More laughter...
...Vegas, to the inhabitants of the Oval Office. Covering Saigon at the time of NLF victory, when Nixon was gone, Thompson seemed trivial, almost offensive. At the same time the presidential tapes were revealing that H.E. and P. even talked like Thompson ("Take Pat Gray out and shoot him (laughter)"; "Fuck the lira, there's no votes in that"). But his day was done...
...prevent Americans from taking their prejudices too seriously, as they have in the less laudable moments of recent history. Trudeau's rather formal answer: "To let the small meannesses and foolishnesses of life face each other in distortion, stretched, juggled and juxtaposed, but always lit with laughter, can ease the pain of self-recognition...