Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Finley doesn't really ever want, or let, the audience laugh with her; we are meant to be uneasy, our laughter always self-conscious, her pain pointedly indigestible. Her predilection for the strangely dramatic keeps us even more off-balance. In front of three slide projectors projecting white light with no pictures, Finley strides onstage wearing only black mules, her posture, tone and demeanor daring us to make her into a sex object. We can't because she won't allow us to, her voice stronger than our gaze, conquering and shaming her would-be voyeurs. She puts...
Softball isn't life, nor is it journalism. Yet there is an enchantment about the game, in the laughter of comrades, the cheers of friends, the resonance of a ball well hit, the pulsing high after racing for home. Maybe this is what life should be all about. We'll figure it out next summer -- at the ball games...
Thursday's efforts at satire utterly degraded the strength and courage of those who manage the difficult task of dying with dignity. By treating terminal illness as a quality to be mocked, it both dehumanized the dying and, in its scornful laughter, turned death into a bad joke played on other people. In short, it made us all, and even life itself, seem a little cheaper, a little more ugly...
...Gloria. "He stopped combing his hair, and he became rather antisocial." Says Bob: "Suddenly, nobody mattered to him." By Jan. 3 he was so disheveled that Bob called Tietz, Greg's caseworker. Greg was growling in public, sometimes in buses, startling fellow passengers. Tietz saw Greg, noted his "inappropriate laughter" and "swelling eyes," and added that "Greg denies any hallucinations or delusions," according to medical records the family obtained from UCLA. On Jan. 12, Bob recalls, after Greg saw Tietz again, the caseworker told Bob that his son's symptoms were "not severe enough" to remedicate him. Tietz asked...
...broken by Orlando talking directly to the audience. Swinton creates an intimate connection with the audience by addressing the camera directly usually as part of a joke. By the end, all she has to do is make a quick flash with her oversized eyes to cause smirks and halting laughter...