Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that one forgets all those things and just follows the plot, knowing that the movie will be forgotten as soon as the credits roll. In the particular showing that this reviewer attended, somebody clapped at the end of the movie. He or she was almost instantly succeeded by the laughter of others in the audience, as if they were saying, "It was good, but it wasn't that good...
...many lovers / Who settled for the thrill / Of basking in my spotlight / I never felt / So happy." The song ends with a rejection of all the Material Girl once held dear "No handsome stranger, heady danger / Drug that I can try / No ferris wheel, no heart to steal / No laughter in the dark / No one night stand, no far off land / No fire that I can spark." The ending of the song is irresistibly cryptic: "And now, I find / I've changed my mind." And then you hear her final whisper, "This is my religion...
...wonder the young hitched a ride to another America: a sweet-smelling place of laughter and music and bad poetry, where a sugar cube under the tongue could demolish the authority of reason itself. The prankster visions of the Acid Tests swirled around the stark realities of American power, and the decade found its signature moments: a flower in a gun barrel, a Defense Secretary scowling out a Pentagon window at the hippies trying to levitate his fortress. When Lyndon Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election, in March 1968, he was tacitly admitting that the freaks might...
Conversational critics of public education are willing to express dissatisfaction with schools, but few can be prodded into proposing and expounding upon reform ideas. Suggest taking on a classroom for a year to them and you'll probably elicit a predictable response: hearty laughter as if the proposal was a joke. Even though education should be an all-encompassing investment, one in which every citizen nurtures, encourages and excites children by the process of learning, parents and the public at large rarely have a meaningful reciprocal relationship with the public school environment...
...Director Alan K. Simpson moderated the discussion and elicited great laughter when in his closing statement he commented on what he hoped the open house had achieved...