Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Kissinger swore Richardson in as ambassador only a few days after the story was printed, the Secretary covered the awkwardness with some urbane jokes that were received with nervous laughter by the assembled group. Richardson says that Kissinger did indeed tell him that he would be his personal choice to become the next Secretary of State. But Kissinger also told a press conference last week that he had no intention of quitting. "That is a decision," he said, "that has to be made largely by the President...
...which Hilarion, the hero, sings to his beloved, Princess Ida. Everyone pauses for a moment. Krag, Fuller and Gratto discuss various interpretations and finally compromise with Krag saying, "Emphasize the note on heart and the diction on stone and fire." Throughout the evening the singthrough is punctuated by conferences, laughter and corny jokes. Afterwards, walking back to North House. Krag talks about choosing the cast. The auditions were low-key and relaxed; Krag and Gratto sat cross-legged on a couch and listened to people sing. There was not long table from behind which the play director and music director...
Under Ross, the magazine was a unique, unstable amalgam of laughter, arrogance, politesse and information. "If you can't be funny, be interesting," he instructed his staff. To that end The New Yorker set a tone that Critic Malcolm Cowley described as nostalgia mixed with condescension. It acted as if the weekly party-to which the reader was always extended an invitation-would never...
...intercut with shots of another man with a craggy face sitting behind them, who keeps raising his eyebrows. After a minute he too heaves out of his seat and wooden faced, strides manfully down the aisle picks up Emmanuelle and carries her into the bathroom to more incredulous laughter from the audience. What follows is a direct steal from the first scene of Last Tango, its perhaps reverent plagiarism ruined as an erotic image by the fact that Emmanuelle is sitting on the sink in what must be pure pain...
...shutters clicked. After the two had gone, Kennerly was summoned back to Ford's desk. There stood a somber Ford with Aides Don Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney. "We have taken a vote," pronounced Ford. "We have decided to replace you with Candy Bergen as White House photographer." The laughter filled the Oval Office and Jerry Ford was ready for more work...