Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...might think. Instead, it is raucous with gallows humor. There is probably not an outright comedy on Broadway at which one could clock more smiles, snorts, giggles and guffaws. Quite apart from the patients' sometimes grisly jests, the response of the audience obviously has complex, uneasy, psychological roots. Laughter is a wonder drug by which man anesthetizes his consciousness of mortality...
...about the antics of that hilarious funster who was trying to pick up a football, but kept on kicking it away from himself. Up and down the field he went, and the ball just kept eluding him. I just couldn't help myself. Paralyzed with laughter...
...with relish, despite criticism. And even with some humor. Henry Kissinger came into Haig's office the other day, when the morning papers were filled with accusations against Haig. "The trouble with Haig," said Kissinger, "is that he is always improving his image." The two friends exploded with laughter...
...minds he is no more than an unprincipled child. Duddy Kravitz never developed a set of principles as he lurched down the road of success. The conflict between ethical conduct and instinctual behavior is there, but only in subtle, sublimated forms, and it is only after the laughter has subsided (which takes a long time) that echoes of a deeper meaning resound...
...spatter itself with bathos unless it is directed by a very skillful man indeed, and Mazursky is too heavy-handed to make it work. Harry and Tonto exploits old people and their problems for the sake of cheap tears and an occasional laugh. Too much of the movie's laughter is directed at Harry instead of against his tormentors. Harry seems ridiculous for urinating in the potted plant, not the police who arrest him. The only symptom of old age Harry displays is incontinence, and, typically, it's played for giggles...