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Word: laughter (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, Hawking's wit and delivery elicited laughter and applause from the audience...

Author: By Parker R. Conrad, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hawking Describes Shape of Time | 9/28/1999 | See Source »

...that in his good-natured, if somewhat inept, international man of mystery, Mike Myers has found one of the greatest and most sustainable comic characters in memory. Myers as Austin Powers has that rare ability to make us laugh before he even says a word, and it is a laughter that comes without a hint of cynicism or meanness. Indeed, it is Powers' unending cheerfulness and excessive eagerness to please that makes him so appealing. In Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, Myers comes of age as both Powers and his nemesis, Dr. Evil. Much of the first movie...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani and David Kornhaber, S | Title: I Know What You Saw This Summer | 9/24/1999 | See Source »

...more frightened than before because I thought they were going to throw me into the fire. The rebels were laughing and making jokes, except for the man who had picked us out. His face was bad, so dark it was blue--you couldn't see any sign of laughter in it. He cut us with the ax one by one. I was number five. The adults were begging, and the children were crying. They put my hands on the ground and cut them off quickly, the left first. I didn't feel anything, or just something like a sting. Everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sierra Leone: War Wounds | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

Bette Midler testifies, "for years I never said a word that Bruce didn't charge me for." Robin Williams: "This man cracks my ass--with laughter." Nathan Lane: "He's given more great lines to celebrities than a Hollywood coke dealer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Roastmaster General | 9/13/1999 | See Source »

...watch Springer's show because he treats the twisted, painful drama of people's lives with an odd respect, and because there are often strippers on. Sure, his circus is silly and entertaining, but without the laughter it would be liberal patronization. This is what makes people respond to him. He already has, for example, the pregnant-stripper constituency wrapped up. And he will continue to build on that base, according to his friend Tim Burke, the Hamilton County Democratic chairman who is pressing Springer to run. "Jerry has always had a Kennedyesque stump style," says Burke. "I think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sen-a-tor! Sen-a-tor! Sen-a-tor! | 8/16/1999 | See Source »

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