Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whom is an attorney, on a subway ride home earlier in the week--an apparent violation of court instructions not to discuss deliberations. That alone would have been grounds for a mistrial, according to lead prosecutor Paul Gardephe. It was an interesting jury, to say the least. Because laughter could often be heard behind the heavy mahogany doors of the jury room, journalists had assumed the panel was harmonious. But as it turned out, the jurors were split almost down the middle, with six for conviction, five for acquittal and one undecided. The laughter, it seems, erupted over games...
...confusion quickly turned to laughter when she realise that the class' only picture of American women came through watching television episodes of "Dallas...
...called Angries--novels by John Wain (Hurry on Down) and John Braine (Room at the Top), the plays of John Osborne (Look Back in Anger)--no longer excite much passion or even interest. Lucky Jim is still as fresh, and as capable of reducing a reader to helpless laughter, as it was 41 years...
...dons. Amis' skill at mimicry flowered in Larkin's appreciative presence: "Kingsley's masterpiece, which was so demanding I heard him do it only twice, involved three subalterns, a Glaswegian driver and a jeep breaking down and refusing to restart somewhere in Germany. Both times I became incapable with laughter...
...cast, the script, and the attention to detail make this production irresistibly rich and seductive. Franklin's Titanic is sophisticated and polished and yet has an irrepressible momentum. The production navigates risky waters smoothly and with full speed ahead, delivering the audience shocked but aching with laughter...