Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...watching live on cable TV. Even when his life finally got suddenly and fatally out of control, his timing was impeccable. He died like a Kennedy, on skis, against a tree. And if that's funny, it is something he'd appreciate. He knew all about the power of laughter. (His lone solo hit was called Laugh at Me.) And with celebrity funerals turning into serious newsfare, Bono provided existential comic relief. For, despite being opera buffa, his life was as grand and as quintessentially American as those of the Massachusetts dynasts--but more exuberantly, more accessibly...
...center of the church to the side. He then announced that where the pulpit had stood was now home base because he was going to preach about "the great baseball game." Reverend Borders believed that religion should be dramatized to make its point and that life should have laughter in it. The "great baseball game" had the following players...
...vibrant. Grove is filled with laughter and an eager joy. He is a compassionate man, with a face that seems most relaxed when it's tucked into a smile. His younger daughter recalls her disco-theme wedding reception last summer, when her dad grabbed her cape and a friend's crown and headed out to the dance floor with a big Grove grin. There, in front of family and friends, was Andras Grof in a silver-lame cape and rhinestone tiara groving to Le Freak as around the world, Intel plants silently cranked away to his rhythm. What were...
...look at, even once he was rich, famous and still on the rise with a $6 million price tag. Or, Chris Farley is dead at 33 probably because for the last five or ten years he has been inhaling massive quantities of drugs, beer, liquor, food, and the unquestioning laughter of audiences both public and private. Because he was never full...
...crowd reacted with laughter to most of Ellison's barbs...