Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laughter] Well, I would say this: that I'm more certain than ever that we must reduce military outlays if we plan to release resources that we need for other important things. We're faced, for example, with a crisis in the financing of education in this country that extends all the way from kindergarten through the Ph.D. The whole question of adequate student aid to permit qualified students to go on to college is a very serious matter in this country. And the problems of the environment which stay with us--the fuel shortage, the shortages in other things...
...also reveals why Storey is a stage animal down to his bones and marrow. In any satisfactory theatrical experience, any single member of an audience feels a communion of spirit with those around him. That is how audience emotion builds so that the entire theater seems to erupt with laughter or stills to a rapt, absolute hush...
...black comedy full of social comment, Monsieur Verdoux is not at all like the Chaplin's silent films. Don't expect to be doubled up in laughter...
...another man, such a compromise might have seemed weak or self-serving. But Kelly, though an undeviating liberal, never viewed himself as a crusader. He was embarrassed when admirers took him or Pogo too seriously. "It is delight which causes laughter," he said, insisting that his political messages were secondary to comedy...
...lost, soulful look from Marcello, one hurt glance from Andrea Ferreol (the actress who plays, unforgettably, the concupiscent schoolteacher who outlasts them all), and the eaters who are bent on turning themselves into trash become momentarily sympathetic--real people that we feel can still be "saved." Convulsed by laughter that chokes, we're depleted by movie's end, having been through a cathartic, unlovely experience: the orgy as death...