Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...When President Nixon asserts that there has to be a choice between inflation and/or higher taxes, and cutting programs like pollution control, medical research, job development, etc., why isn't there a storm of laughter through our tears and a demand for rational priorities? Why shouldn't Congress slice the funds from the bloated Defense Department...
...plain that Miss Greer, who knows [and] understands her theatrical resources, has very definitely exploited sex in the course of attempting to shock people into a recognition of the Women's Liberation movement." How is it, asked Buckley, that she supports divergent forms of sexuality? Greer drew audience laughter by replying: "I'm still heterosexual. That's my problem." Buckley: "Well, as I say, insecurity is a fact of life." When the laughter and applause died, the society rendered its decision: 546 for Women's Lib, 156 against...
...this sort of confusion is not the playwright's objective. Ionesco seems to want his audience to experience the absurdity of life, not to understand it. He wants us to give ourselves over to the experience as though it were reality itself, and accept the insights, the laughter and the horrors like a volley of random shots--some hit, and some don't "Conclusions" are not only unimportant, they contradict the salient point...
...show--John Dunlop in action at a Faculty meeting. As Faculty members and observers ambled into the University Hall Faculty meeting room, they saw the former Dean seated in his usual position at the right of President Bok, trading quips with passers-by and periodically bursting into fits of laughter, always casting a canny eye about the room to reassure himself that everything in his Faculty was in order...
...start of the meeting never deters Dunlop from continuing his performance. While Bok plays the somber straight man, next to him Dunlop slouches in his chair, scowls disdainfully in the direction of his ever diminishing number of adversaries, only to jerk upright in paroxysms of laughter when his side scores a point. At a meeting last fall, he and Bok disagreed over a bit of financial minutia, and when evidence corroborating his position came forth from the audience, he lurched forward chuckling, his finger waggling at the somewhat taken aback Bok. Some observers swore they detected him stick...