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...executioner!" and throwing packs of anti-Putin flyers from the balcony, but security quickly rounded them up. The audience greeted the film, and the protest, with an indifference typical of today's cynical and worn-out Moscow. Only once during the screening did the audience react with real laughter and applause: when the fictional First Lady told the press that "Freedom of speech is sacred to us." I couldn't help laughing either. Love indeed conquers all. Happy St. Valentine...
...can’t say anything more nice about me,” Faust said to hearty laughter as she cut Blue...
...Stone T-shirts and Nikes. You can, if you will, deplore disconnects of this kind - whatever became of the tragic sense of life? - or you can find a perverse sort of hope in them. Even slightly dopy little American comedies carry with them an implicit promise - of romance, of laughter, of (above all) the modest joys of ordinary life. And they carry that message - without even knowing it's a message - to the remotest and nastiest corners of the world...
Most separation-inspired items--the Ex, ex-wife toilet paper, ex-boyfriend voodoo dolls--may be intentionally designed to evoke laughter from the otherwise painful situation of a breakup. "They're filling a need," says Princeton anthropologist John Borneman. But he and other experts worry that the surge of products is symptomatic of an increasingly fickle investment in marriage. "A classic case where market intervention is sapping the moral fiber of a society," Popenoe says...
...photograph shown to jurors, Princess Diana sits between her two sisters in the backseat of a car, the three of them doubled over in laughter. Perhaps you can't remember the joke, the attorney suggests to the witness, Diana's eldest sister, the Lady Sarah McCorquodale. Aloof and understated throughout the day's proceedings, she breaks into a naughty grin: "I'm afraid...