Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Slaw and Order" serves up its best jokes when it tries to be a cartoon Laughter can abound at some of the recreations of the health inspector's death. Early on, he brings several moments of entertainment with his unctuous gestures. Later, a sub-plot, involving the unreaction of samplers brought out a few chuckles from the audience. But, these moments do not quite add up to a great play. Even Velma knows that it takes more than the discovery of a magnifying glass and phosphorescent paint to solve the crime...
...stepped up to the microphone, the 83-year-old Terkel likened his podium to a pulpit and his audience to a "captive congregation," and, at the end of his speech, to widespread laughter, proposed passing a collection plate...
...Leyner elicited laughter when he raised the antithesis of the night's question...
Soon, inspired reconstructions of the Cambrian bestiary began to create a stir at paleontological gatherings. Startled laughter greeted the unveiling of oddball Opabinia, with its five eyes and fire-hose-like proboscis. Credibility was strained by Hallucigenia, when Conway Morris depicted it as dancing along on needle-sharp legs, and also by Wiwaxia, a whimsical armored slug with two rows of upright scales. And then there was Anomalocaris, a fearsome predator that caught its victims with spiny appendages and crushed them between jaws that closed like the shutter of a camera. "Weird wonders," Harvard University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called...
Participation requirements were not stringent. "I'm not on the faculty and I have no talent," said Director of Dining Services Michael P. Berry, whose dramatic reading of students' dining hall comment cards brought the night's loudest outbursts of laughter...