Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Well maybe he did," Gorbachev says, "but under him the trains don't run regularly." When the laughter stops, Gorbachev becomes grave. "I made a mistake trusting Yeltsin," he says, "but you elected him the first time, so you made a mistake too. Think hard before you make the same mistake again, and remember that no matter who wins, the result must be respected. What we need most at this time is a straight, free, democratic election...
...produce an all-house musical production that's sold out every night and gets great reviews. Everybody in it--the tech crew, the cast, the orchestra--comes from our house. People you never thought would go near a stage belt out numbers with chutzpah to the cheers and laughter of their friends in the audience...
Opening the window, I hear the familiar sounds of "ABBA" blasting in the Library Suite, the laughter of a group returning from the Square and the subdued murmurs of a couple sitting under a tree. The Quad is calm and it is alive. The night security guard, John, looks off the porch of the Grand Entryway, in front of the cabinet that will hold the Straus Cup another year. This is a remarkable place, and just think: There are eleven more just like it, but nothing that could ever be the same...
...their heroes Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt to their black-tie audience of 200. Actors Jane Alexander and Edward Herrmann, who had played the Roosevelts on television, gave readings, and there was a scratchy old recording of the real Eleanor singing (sort of) High Hopes, which brought both gales of laughter and misty eyes...
...favored by the National Endowment for the Arts, natch). Actually, he was at least as American as his critics--a compulsive Puritan who realized that the City on a Hill had been built in a mud-slide area. The very thought of this moved him to gusts of bitter laughter, and these still blow from his work. Did he exaggerate? Of course; that's what large-hearted moralists do. There are some truths that speak only from the well of exaggeration...