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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Myers waxes wildly as the lust-crazed Katisha. She draws peals of laughter with her incongrous teeth-gnashing and parody of a broken-hearted ingenue (overweight, arthritis-ridden, and eminently unsuitable for the adolescent Nanki...

Author: By David L. Greene, | Title: Turning Japanese | 12/9/1988 | See Source »

...followed up by the disaster of Top Secret. When the latter film is mentioned, both Weiss and Zucker flinch. As Zucker says, "It isn't like drama where you can say `You simply didn't get the "heavyosity" we were aiming for.'" In comedy, the sound (or lack) of laughter is an immediate indication of success (or failure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INTERVIEW | 12/2/1988 | See Source »

...Laughter filled the press room...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: The Best of Harvard's Worst Times | 11/21/1988 | See Source »

...Laughter was one of the things that made Shapiro happiest on opening night, too, he says. "If I do something on stage and I hear someone laugh I think `Oh my God, what's more important than hearing someone laugh?'" says Shapiro...

Author: By Melanie R. Williams, | Title: The Musical Makes a Comeback | 11/18/1988 | See Source »

...perseveres, pointing to another word. "Ubiquitous. Sometimes when you are walking around downtown L.A., the police are ubiquitous." Polite laughter. "Resonant. Many opera singers have a resonant quality to their voice." He breaks into a baritone, singing scales with a mock gravity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Who's Teaching Our Children? | 11/14/1988 | See Source »

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