Word: laughter
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...adage that too many cooks spoil the broth—but we today are too slow to consider the tools and mechanics that proverbial broth-making implies. The collaborative novel, if nothing else, gives us an opportunity to reflect on our technological situation. After all, isn’t laughter “the panacea for the pain of the human experience…like apathy is the icing on the tractor?...
...biggest sewer line in Boston runs under Allston, it’s 100 million gallons on a busy day,” Gordon said, drawing laughter from the professors as he detailed one of the project’s environmentally-friendly schemes...
...More laughter came later in the speech when the Faculty found out that some of their colleagues in the sciences had lobbied for social space in the new Allston science building, which began construction in November...
...continued, to the laughter of the over 200-person audience. “I actually have two new poems to be published in the next month, one in The Nation, and the other in the Socialist Review...
...Once the laughter was done, those who were famous, important or otherwise worked for someone famous or important, scurried outside into a light drizzle for the three-block walk to the Bloomberg after party. The financial wire service had transformed the Costa Rican Embassy into a rough approximation of a hip, Los Angeles nightclub, with neon lights, lots of vodka and nubile ladies who silently walked around dressed in form-fitting airline stewardess costumes. One wall of the main room had a series of stairs that led to the ceiling, at the top of which Rick Davis, the campaign manager...