Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some ways this is the customary Murdoch blend of incipient farce, domestic tragicomedy and intellectual soap opera. Baroque pratfalls occur as usual, but neither the release of laughter nor the expected snicker of superiority (what odd and frightful people!) follows. Blaise knows that his psychological theorizing is mostly cant, yet he does have a knack for helping his patients. His visits to sharp-tongued Emily's apartment are mixed blessings-it is a hate nest in which the girl spends a good deal of time demanding money to have her teeth fixed. Harriet at first seems too kind...
...flight of hyperbole, Ford told the group that if it succeeded in finding answers to inflation, "there will be statues of each of you in every city park throughout the U.S." Democrat Walter Heller remarked: "It is refreshing to be in a White House open to a little laughter again, and to dissent...
...assembled cowpokes were obviously impressed. They tried to cover their envy by pretending to fall down in uncontrolled fits of laughter - but of course their act did not fool me." Someone in charge at the rodeo decided that the TIME correspondent's performance merited what he interprets as a high honor: renamed for the event, one of the orneriest brahma bulls around stormed into the arena after being loudly announced as "John Austin...
TerHorst's own performances so far at White House briefings have been relaxed, businesslike and occasionally jovial. When a Dutch correspondent asked last week if the press secretary's forebears came from Holland, terHorst provoked laughter by replying in fractured Dutch. When he confessed that he simply did not know the answer to one question, instead of trying to evade it, a few reporters burst into applause...
...little quote in the speech last night from T.R. [Theodore Roosevelt]. As you know, I like to read books. I'm not educated, but I do read books [laughter] . . . There's another [quote] I found as I was reading my last night in the White House . . . He'd married a beautiful girl and they had a lovely daughter. And then suddenly she [Roosevelt's wife] died. This is what he wrote...