Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Shachar's favorite memories took place at the end of his first year, by which time he was 22 years old. He and some friends from his dormitory, Massachusetts Hall, had returned from a night out on the Square. Amidst peals of laughter and pun-peppered conversation (puns are another Ben-Shachar passion), one friend "suddenly stopped. She looked at me very seriously and intensely, and she said to me, 'Tal, you have really immatured.'" Ben-Shachar says his immaturity process is never-ending, though he hopes it is not infinitely regressive...
Brokaw's speech was repeatedly interrupted with applause and laughter, and audience members praised the 56-year-old news anchor...
...delivered his lines blushing on center stage. A double-bass was put into his hands, and as the orchestra started up and John played the number "Slap That Bass," his shyness fell away--he closed his eyes and his wrists snapped the strings, to a roar of applause and laughter from his friends in the audience...
...almost expired with helpless laughter after reading Charlton Heston's angry letter denying Gore Vidal's comments [LETTERS, May 13] that the subtext of the relationship of characters played by Heston and Stephen Boyd in the film Ben-Hur was a homosexual one. Without meaning to, of course, Heston utterly confirms Vidal's assertion that director William Wyler told Vidal that Heston would "fall apart" if he knew about the homosexual subtext they conspired to feed Boyd behind Heston's back. All this behind-the-camera intrigue is rendered moot, however, if you just watch the scene...
...heart attack; in Quogue, New York. Clurman built a network of correspondents around the world that he inspired with his own curiosity, energy and passion. Said TIME's Hugh Sidey last week: "He never panicked in a crisis, was always instructive when correcting you--and there was always laughter when he was around." Later Clurman took on cultural challenges, serving as New York City administrator of parks, recreation and cultural affairs and on the board of Lincoln Center. His books include To the End of Time, which was critical of the Time Warner merger...