Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-anticipated envelope arrived at our door. One of my roommates already poured shots (of milk, of course), awaiting the fateful news. He opened the envelope and slowly extracted the piece of paper. Unfolding it and breaking into a fit of hysterical laughter, he dropped to the floor. Then he proceeded to drink from his glass, already refilled at eight in the morning. I picked up the paper and saw the dreaded word--"Pforzheimer." I, too, dropped to the floor, stunned. I was Quadded. We were screwed by the Harvard system that knows no mercy...
...sympathetic and empathetic with the downtrodden and the poor," he urged the future lawyers. "But at the same time, you have to make money," he said to laughter...
...Thunder rumbled somewhere far off, and unfocused heat lightning flashed in the darkening sky overhead. Bill looked up uneasily, his laughter dying...
...there was meaning and majesty in the Gate's fortnight at Lincoln Center. The actors, their voices tinged with the guilt of Irish laughter, restored the author to his homeland. Beckett tortured actors--burying them in hillsides or trash cans, reducing them to mouths or silence--and loved them too, by writing roles so concentrated, in settings so austere, that the performance is the play. And here some wonderful actors (Rosaleen Linehan in Happy Days, David Kelly in Krapp's Last Tape, Barry McGovern in Godot and Endgame) made two weeks of wonderful theater...
...decided I was really in the mood for something else. I asked for a Diet Coke. I received a blank stare. My bad. They call it Coca Cola Light out here. I tried again in broken Japanese, "Coca Cola Light Onegai-shimasu." This time, the response was only laughter--not only from the bartender/chef but also from Ishii-san and the dozen or so other people in the restaurant...