Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Laughter in the Louvre? As gross a solecism, one might think, as a belch in the Sainte-Chapelle. Yet for several weeks, visitors to the Louvre's Museum of Decorative Arts have been convulsed with mirth over the work of a puckish artist from Marseille, Jacques Carelman. With his collection of "Objets In-trouvables" (Unfindable Objects), Carelman has revived Surrealist humor and created the wittiest show to be seen in Paris in years. (It will open in Dallas next winter...
Danny Kaye, L.H.D., comedian. Recipient of awards from numerous national and international bodies, he cherishes more than all of them the joy his presence evokes as the world's disenchanted children exchange their daily dole of misery for his precious gift of laughter...
...fine for a time, but afterwards the discomfort in the back field is too great.") For Cuscat, as his Dominican teacher tells him, is "one of those who can hold opposites comfortably in his head." His natural response to a visitation from Santa Rosha is not awe but laughter. "We speak of God," the novelist explains, "the Indians speak...
...laughter: "He who cannot laugh at himself appears ridiculous...
Mike Nichols, L.H.D., stage and film director. [He] has stimulated the laughter of millions, and in that process exposed to the light of comedy much that is pretentious, venal and false in contemporary life...