Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people armed not with joy sticks but with arsenals of minutiae. Notes John Nason, vice president of marketing at Selchow & Righter: "The pendulum's swinging back from video games. With a video game you sit alone in a corner. Playing a board game there is interaction-moaning, groaning, laughter...
...while the play is undeniably designed to elicit laughter over tears it is not without a message. The importance of family fealty operates aa a recurrent theme throughout the drama as the likelihood of Babe's downfall heightens the need for people to pursue their dreams. When Meg bitterly assails herself and her family for her foiled singing career, and Lenny whines on about being a victim of a psychological aberration, both sisters muster the courage to "go for it." It is this triumph of will, of determination not to repeat their mother's easy way out, that enables Babe...
...family decree against summer television, Ueberroth had viewed the competition nightly with the sound turned down low in the darkened room of an elderly neighbor lady who was trying to sleep. He was such an unlikely proprietor of the Games that his reaction to the first feeler was laughter. He said...
...number of a particular knee-slapper to keep themselves in stitches. Offering a demonstration for a visitor, the warden called out 61-37-4. The prisoners howled and guffawed. "Now you try one," invited the warden. The visitor called out 53, then 89 and finally 2. No laughter, not a chuckle. The warden shrugged: "I guess it depends on how you tell...
...know without inspecting the Interior Secretary's interior if he personally abhors minority representation in government, but the suspicion runs high because Watt derided not only his commissioners, but also those members of the public sufficiently generous to find both humor and value in a sensitive issue. The laughter he elicited-and there was laughter-was the hollow laugh, what Samuel Beckett called the "mirthless" laugh (in the novel Watt, coincidentally), the laugh that itself gives a slap in the face...