Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Have you ever tried to take a multiple-choice exam without making a choice?" Jackson asked playfully, followed by a round of laughter...
Despite the ominous and sometimes horrific mood of Gorey's work, the reader who first comes upon a Gorey tome is likely to be startled, confused and hysterically overcome with laughter. The tales are genuinely hilarious, featuring an eclectic mix of Victorian mannerisms, macabre comedy and blunt inexplicability. The pictures, done in crosshatched ink, are typically accompanied by a simple, hand-written, declarative sentence or sometimes just a word...
...Peter is mostly to react to Jerry, but he does this well. It is easy to see in Mills' face how Peter passes from amused to shocked to visibly shaken as Jerry narrates the story of his life. Curled on the park bench, shaking from, it seems, both laughter and tears as a result of Jerry's stories, Peter's very straight, conventional outlook has been destroyed...
...thinking about drugs, so late on a Friday afternoon I call Graffix--the company best-known for its designer bongs--hoping to catch someone off guard, or better yet, stoned. But when a young guy picks up the phone and I tell him I'm a Crimson editorialist, his laughter is remarkably sober...
Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, the matron of honor, walked ahead of Carolyn. Caroline's two daughters, Tatiana and Rose, were flower girls and her son Jack, 3, was the ring bearer. "Why is Carolyn dressed like that?" Jack asked, creating a ripple of laughter. Anthony Radziwill, the son of Jackie's sister Lee, served as best man. The vows were the standard Roman Catholic liturgy. Kennedy and Bessette had received permission from a bishop to hold a Catholic ceremony in a Protestant church. The deacon was a Jesuit from the church in New York City where Jackie was baptized, confirmed...