Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...vehicle, will soon join their ranks. Inexplicably, the current video by a mainstream adultcontemporary pop singer, Gloria Estefan, is a paean to the thrills of crossdressing. Consequently, increased exposure to the practice means that the traditional, instinctive reaction to many public male-to-female cross dressers, usually one of laughter coupled with spasms of revulsion, has changed to one of, if not obliviousness, then almost casual acceptance...
...single tutors in other houses who have been at Harvard for, like, thirty years." He even went so far as to suggest that the tutors at Mather might actually "just have sex." Cathy, the I.D. card-checker at the dining hall, considered the question for a while. Bursting into laughter, she surmised, "Must've been a COLD winter!" When asked if she thought the food might have contained fertility-enhancing additives, Cathy quickly supressed her giggles and solemnly and flatly denied any chance of food contamination...
Someone asks what became of the architect. Was he fired for his mistake? Contemplating the missing top rows, Castro shrugs. ``No,'' he deadpans, testing his listeners' sense of humor. ``He was shot.'' Then Castro roars with laughter at his joke, a parody of his image as a bloodthirsty dictator. And with that, the evening and the aging commandant suddenly come alive...
...violence in recent years. Try the experience of going to a movie that supposedly decries violence, such as Menace II Society or Natural Born Killers during which the audience, rather than being shocked or angered by the scenes of random violence and murder, instead breaks into applause and laughter. A friend of mine told me that she even experienced this when she saw Schindler's List...
...council is sponsoring a matchmaking service this month. Students answer multiple-choice questions on topics ranging from stands on abortion to the importance of laughter, said council member Jinesh N. Shah '98, who is organizing the service...