Word: laughter
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...lights were already off, but the palpable smugness in the room and self-consciously appropriate laughter that followed suggested that the audience consisted of hipsters, socialites, Ivy grads and an assortment of other caricatures out of the East Coast intellectual elite. For a moment, I found it strange that representatives of the group supposedly ushering in the United States’ moral decay and loss of traditional values would come together to watch a movie about football, America’s rough and tumble answer to that wimpy game where scrawny European boys chase after each other in short-shorts...
...Stiller surrounded by models wearing deer antlers that appeared this year in a Men’s Vogue fashion spread. “I have trouble figuring out what’s real and what’s not real anymore,” she said, to laughter from the audience...
...little further down the hallway from the lobby, chatter and laughter can be heard through an open door. Inside, Shelby sits with his back to an open window that looks out at the courtyard in front of the Barker Center. His office seems to shout “A philosopher works here!”—papers, books and printouts are strewn across nearly every flat surface, including the floor...
...Democratic success to a favorable political atmosphere for the left, not a permanent Republican decline. He began by saying that because of the recent Democratic victory, he imagined that he would receive “special sympathy, empathy, and condolence” on the notoriously liberal Harvard campus, drawing laughter from the audience. He said that for the Republican Party, the “most worrisome are young voters,” and that because of this demographic trend, his party is “in extremely bad shape.” Kristol compared this year’s situation...
...throwing spitballs” from the back of the room. This outsider status is a key element of their identity. For years, I have watched their shows because, in a country seemingly dominated by conservative ideologues, they offered an oasis where Right was still wrong, and laughter could lighten the burden of the very unfunny things happening to America...