Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...woman sat surrounded by audience laughter as the protesters continued their demonstration and the lecturers remained expressionless on stage...
...dozen photographs taken with the van's cameras cover its inside ceiling and show people in various states of laughter, amazement and disarray. Hanging from the inside top edge of the windshield are slides with dyed edges. The floor and sides of the van are covered with photographic paraphernalia...
...address at James Madison High School in a northern Virginia suburb. Instead, he pointed out, the Constitution allows students to read Bibles or other scriptures, say grace before meals and take part in religious clubs in high schools. "Students can also pray to themselves," he said, drawing laughter when he added: "Preferably before tests, as I used to do." Social conservatives pledged to continue fighting fora constitutional amendment on school prayer, which would go farther than the status quo by allowing teachers to offer public expressions of faith in schools...
...choice in the book is between howling misery and howling laughter, and the reader veers toward laughter. Long passages should be read aloud: "My spankings were a kind of family sporting event ... Unless Mother managed to get me down in a corner, she would have to hold one of my wrists to keep me within flyswatter distance while she flailed in my direction. At best, she made contact about ten percent of the time ... Locked together this way, the two of us would spin from room to room with Grandma at our perimeter in her wheelchair, scolding and bitching...
...whether my mother is looking downat me from heaven, but if she is I can guess whatshe's probably thinking: she's thinking that I'msticking my nose into matters that only people whohave properly studied political science at Harvardhave the right to stick their noses into," Havelsaid to laughter...