Word: laughter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...sought out the best links in the nation for himself and his golfing cronies on occasions when he should have been at his desk handling national problems. John Kennedy's social evenings were a lot more successful than some of his dealings with Congress. People still roar with laughter recalling that Lyndon Johnson, when told by a Marine that he was headed toward the wrong Government helicopter, looked down and said, "Son, they are all my helicopters...
...Dark Laughter. Robert Shaw as the bullet-headed lout begins by screaming something as subtle as "Shut up, for Christ's sake!" Zoe Caldwell asks with a desperate pleading, "Oh, when is he going to die?" Starting at such a level of anger, it is difficult for the players to find much new emotional territory to cover, and they do not. Strindberg intended moments of dark laughter in The Dance of Death, but the audience laughs with a bewildered edginess, as if not quite sure that it should...
Stevens discovered scotch at the Casablanca. Always prone to comfort in any form, he began to favor fits of laughter with acquaintances and morose drunkenness with friends. Dope was worse; it seemed to cost more and made him slightly nauseous...
...reached his fateful decision to go to war with Israel. There last week Sadat received Hedley Donovan and gave his first interview with a representative of a Western publication since the war. Wearing a gray turtleneck sweater, slacks and sports jacket, Sadat puffed his pipe and broke into confident laughter from time to time as he ranged widely over a number of topics. Among the questions and answers...
WITH SPIRITS as lush and sensuous as the costumes they wore, a troupe of actors known as the Glorious Ones played their hearts out to street audiences in 17th century Italy. Their improvisations were passionate and bawdy, but so charming that even Church-supported French nobility were seduced into laughter. Impresario Flaminio Scala concocted such a dynamic group by painstakingly typecasting each member perfectly. So all they needed to do--Armanda the grotesque but sharp-witted dwarf, Pantalone the cross miserly Jew, Dottore the pompous doctor of quackery, Brighella the spiteful gadfly, and the others--was get up on stage...