Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the belly-bursting laughter of Act II, Act III pales by comparison. While there are some interesting moments as Dallas' cast stumbles through one mistake after another, desperately trying to get back to the script, most of the bumbling becomes tedious...
...checked my handgun at the gate," Richard Nixon quipped within earshot of a dozen armed Chinese police and soldiers standing guard around the U.S. embassy in Beijing. His sarcasm drew whoops of laughter from foreign service officers, who had lodged three complaints in as many days against "harassment" by the Chinese troops stationed outside the compound. With Sino-American relations at their lowest in years, the former President was back in Beijing last week on a "private" visit, attempting to salvage what he could of the relationship he had launched with such drama in 1972. If any outsider...
...club car and a dining car of the American-European Express, each refitted to five-star, died-and-went-to-heaven standards, will leave Washington's Union Station and roll into legend. The next morning at 10:17, some 50 cosseted passengers, dreamy from a night of love and laughter, aslosh with breakfasts that on a recent test run from Panama City, Fla., to Atlanta included crepes with crabmeat, followed by eggs, spinach, hollandaise sauce and baby lamb chops, will arrive at Chicago's Union Station...
When Wooster tells the story about how he and his former fiancee, Florence Cray, try to steal his uncle Willoughby's manuscript and are foiled by his uncle and Edwin, the boy scout, the audience engages in non-stop laughter. Wooster's description of his uncle trying to make him confess is particularly hilarious. Wooster says: "It was most disgusting spectacle--this white-haired man who should have been thinking of the hereafter stood there lying like an actor...
...this ending is only a minor flaw in an otherwise perfectly polished piece of work. Duke's energy in switching from role to role and from adventure to adventure remains high in spite of his numerous costume changes. And the foibles of these everyday-type characters keeps the laughter flowing steadily...