Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Except for the Fox network, which would put on naked live executions," he added, to audience laughter...
Rage and pity, even self-pity, have their place as well as their limits. Now let's try laughter -- the best medicine, as Reader's Digest, Norman Cousins and Paul Rudnick can tell you. Rudnick has already earned many a healthy laugh with his plays Poor Little Lambs and I Hate Hamlet and his comic essays in Vanity Fair and Spy. Jeffrey, though, is a real tonic. It's a wonderful comedy about a rancid tragedy: the crape of death hanging over any gay guy who is crazy about...
...horror, but it left no discernible scars. Perhaps that was a little part of her magic: after slaughter and in the midst of chilling political uncertainty, the world found a grace in her that it yearned for. She seemed serene, but she was quick to laughter. She was ethereal -- she gave a credible performance as Rima, the bird creature in Green Mansions -- but she could be sensual and knowing, whether in the mock innocence of her Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's, or, later, in the painful cunning of the beleaguered wife in Two for the Road. Surely...
...women in Oman finally agreed after a week of cajoling, "but first you have to show us your pubic hair." And that's how Roddick ended up with her pants at half-mast, surrounded by Bedouin women (who pluck their body hair religiously) "pointing and hooting and screaming with laughter...
Silence--followed by laughter as the crowded car of tourists and press hounds grinned at each other and began to compare notes on who had travelled the farthest to join in the festivities...