Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later, I offer no excuses except the following good ones: 1) My legs, as I have already pointed out, had fallen almost irretrievably asleep. 2) I was growing just a trifle annoyed at the folks sitting next to me--management "plants," I reckoned, the magnitude of whose outbursts of laughter stood in inverse proportion to that the of the rest of the audience; when a line simply wasn't funny, they'd purposely laugh, look wild-eyed at each other, and exclaim, "Brilliant! Just brilliant!" 3) They were drinking champagne throughout the performance, and its smell, too, began...
...seems to have trouble with comedy. Early attempts to wring bitter laughter out of assembly-line conditions and the financial woes of the three central figures (Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto) do not entirely pay off. Still, these scenes help motivate the film's central incident, a robbery of their own union's safe in which the three turn up not the cash they wanted but a ledger hinting at various forms of venality and corruption. Their attempts to capitalize on the information are ambiguous: they would like to blackmail some money out of the union...
...rushed out of my room into the early December night. With winter just on the border, I strutted briskly over to Passim. The little underground coffeehouse seemed to be pulsing with energy, occasional peals of laughter and cheer burst into the night, followed by silence save for the ragged-sounding folk songs. It was packed with people watching, people smiling, people laughing, people focusing and clicking, people straining to hear every word, and sing every line along with Allen Ginsburg and Peter Rolovski. Ginsberg and his troupe sat at the front of the basement room wailing, and reading lyrically with...
...about the October War, and we talk about the Six-Day War," noted an Israeli wryly. When somebody raised the question of what kind of work old soldiers should go into after they retire, an Israeli and an Egyptian shouted almost simultaneously, "Export-import!" and the group broke into laughter...
...American culture, in our great universities, or in our communications media. This is not surprising, since this philosophy's public image is one of book bannings, Scopes monkey trials and Anita Bryant crusades. If such lunacy is supposed to "save" America, you'll forgive my stifled laughter...