Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shouts and curses and laughter of the Panthers are tactics of confrontation that were developed in the street. As the Chicago Seven ably demonstrated, determined men can disrupt a trial at will. And many defendants' apparent disdain for punishment has rendered the traditional judicial fetters-contempt citations, gags and shackles-largely ineffective...
...same kind of versatile and volatile talent. She can belt out a song with the best of them, Judy Garland included. Her dancing is spirited and ceaseless. Her acting has been known to bring on spontaneous bursts of applause from the movie crew. She can move people to laughter and to tears with equal ease-sometimes simultaneously...
...fight against Joe McCarthy; of heart disease; in Springfield, Vt. More than once lawmakers chuckled at the homespun Flanders, who occasionally voted "yes or no-as the case may be" on Senate motions and once upbraided Ike for relaxing tariffs on imported clothespins. But there was no laughter in 1954 when he risked his career by becoming the first Republican to challenge the feared Wisconsin Senator. Charging that he belonged to "a one-man party whose name is McCarthyism," Flanders introduced the censure resolution that led to McCarthy's downfall...
...Boll has another voice. "This is a sad country without sadness," he wrote in the magazine Der Monat in 1965, describing postwar Germany. He explores that paradox with Kafkaesque laughter in a story about an argument between a veteran who has lost a leg and an impatient bureaucrat who denies the soldier a higher pension. "I think that you grossly underestimate my leg," the veteran remarks. Then he wryly proceeds to relate how, if he hadn't lost his leg, he would have run away and not warned some officers of an impending attack. And that has actually cost...
Maclnnes further hots up his tale with pirates, witches and a plantation owner's daughter-an 18th century Lolita, the young bitch-heroine to end all bitch-heroines. But like painted scenery, Maclnnes' skillfully assumed style devitalizes what it copies. It inhibits Westward to Laughter as Rattling Good Yarn while blunting it as Savage Satire...