Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...said of laughter, "It is worthless," and of mirth, "What's the point?" And I set unto myself to get acquainted with the ways of wisdom...
...decidedly does not. Immortality is every bit as gripping and exhilarating as The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1980) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), the two novels that made Kundera, an exiled Czech who has lived in Paris since 1975, famous in the West. Like its predecessors, Immortality swings easily, almost imperceptibly, from narrative to rumination and back again, collapsing the distinction between action and concepts. Kundera's characters must cope with their emotions and with the stresses of daily life in contemporary Paris; but they also embody, sometimes consciously and sometimes by example, a number of nagging...
Terri Mullin, we will miss you. We will miss your laughter and your toughness. We hope that you are in a better place now, a place where you don't have to worry about breathing or coughing or anything. Your too-short life will stand as an inspiration...
...loading oats, both men say the best part of their experience has been the horseback riding. "Out on the plains, galloping along, I feel like a real cowboy," says Kaz. "But you sure as hell don't look like one!" jokes Chaffin as the room resounds with laughter...
...hectic hidings and costume-changes, fine-tuning the disorder. As Dr. Rance ran around searching for his newly "certified" lunatic, Dr. Prentice attempted to eject her from the compound and his suspicious wife tried to catch them all in the act. These well-acted hijinks sent the audience into laughter rather than confusion...