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...audience responded with laughter to his poem "Restless Leg Syndrome," in which a soldier's leg "for no apparent reason flies around the room kicking stuff...
...week, Hurley asked for sympathy for his client. He said that when they met for the first time, Peterson "was full of twitches, he had an uncontrollable nervous laughter, his face was flushing, his voice was trembling. He's a very scared kid." Earlier Hurley said that Peterson had not expressed any sorrow over the death of the child. Hurley also defended the parents' harboring a fugitive and reported that Peterson's mother, hearing her son might face the death penalty, wanted him to flee the country. She thought of Iraq or Syria as his havens since they...
That reaction was better than some others. Leo Stein, Picasso's wealthy American patron, called the painting a "horrible mess." Henri Matisse, with whom Picasso maintained an edgy rivalry, doubled up in laughter when he saw the work in Picasso's studio. Andre Derain, a painter who was becoming friendly with Picasso, warned an acquaintance: "This can only end in suicide. One day, Picasso will be found hanging behind the Demoiselles...
Almost all of the lawyers who work with the ACLU, including Strossen herself, are volunteers. She joked: "I just want to make it clear [that] when we lose cases, it is not because of bad lawyers, but because of bad judging," eliciting laughter from the audience...
Moreno is able to contort his face into every manageable form of laughter, each more convincing than the last. His visage reminds one of a young Jonathan Winters, as does his sense of comic timing. Von Gerbig is hilarious as his foil; her eyes move into every possible direction. She is as artless as he is artful...