Word: laughters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mollify cautious network executives. The show dispenses with big production numbers and cue cards-to the dismay of some guests who have difficulty memorizing their lines. TV's canned-laugh track is also eliminated in favor of a live audience-but fortunately there is plenty of genuine laughter to make...
...people and the young movie-goers will share its anti-military, anti-Vietnam position. Emile de Antonio's "In the Year of the Pig" presented a case against the war that must be considered even by those who might favor combat; in FTA the case is closed, with the laughter more of a reiteration than a recognition...
...crucial to a Democratic victory in November, the question remained whether Daley would exert his still considerable power in behalf of the national ticket or merely concentrate on getting local and state candidates elected. Asked whether he blamed McGovern for his exclusion from the convention, Daley replied with laughter: "What do you think...
...Baath Party's rule has reduced the legendary thousand-and-one nights capital of Haroun-al-Rashid to "a joyless city where laughter is alien and diplomats politely suspend dinner conversations when a waiter hovers within earshot," reported TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott after a visit last week. The city (pop. 2,100,000) is a dusty, sunbaked mélange of blue-domed mosques, dun-colored buildings and massive office complexes housing a growing government bureaucracy. Traffic jams are frequent as British-built double-decker buses, government Chevrolets and even donkeys all maneuver for the five bridges that span...
...Well, from the time I get up till the time I get to sleep, I think constantly about sex and death." In this he is not too dissimilar from the rest of humankind. But there is a dark side to Allen's obsession that occasionally hovers above the laughter. From the beginning, for instance, he has been fond of ambiguous God jokes: "The message is, God is love, and you should lay off fatty foods." God references appear throughout his films and sketches. In a piece called Mr. Big, Allen, a hard-cooked private I, is on the lookout...