Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remember hearing someone shout "grab his hat," then I felt a blow to the side of the head. Then I was on the ground-my new Boston Red Sox cap was gone, there was laughter coming from the truck halfway down the street and I was covered in black sludgy water, apparently from the mud puddle that had been in the gutter at my feet just moments before and which I had made a careful mental note to avoid...
...Life as a Dog was last year's most popular foreign- language film in the U.S. For all its hints of death and humiliation, the picture has a jaunty air -- a Truffaut paean to childhood, set to a silly, danceable beat. In this village everyone is ripe for fond laughter: the uncle whose rapport with Ingemar puts his wife at a distance; the old lodger whose only pleasure is reading lingerie ads; the tomboy who bandages her breasts to masquerade for a last summer as one of the boys. At the picture's heart is the irrepressible Glanzelius...
Snow, whose act centers around eating, sex, and her own obesity, has a unique way of taking ordinary events and turning them into cause for uproarious laughter. Snow jokes about everyday events, such as how she lies on her driver's license. "My weight on my license is my weight on the moon," she jokes...
...knelt to read the answer as it slowly took shape on the dim liquid-crystal screen. The conversation shifted to creativity and how mathematicians seem to reach a creative peak in their early 20s. Hawking's computer beeped. "I'm over the hill," he said, to a chorus of laughter...
When the votes are all tallied and the goodbyes said and the clasps of work- thickened hands finished, the lingering flavor of the Iowa caucuses in the chill February night will be rich brownies and giant chunks of fudge mixed with laughter and hugs for neighbors and the silent thanks for the right to do what they have just done. The people of this down-to-earth state will have made the first significant declaration to the world about whom the American electorate has in mind to be the next President. Serious business...