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...survivor of housework and motherhood, laughter is still the best revenge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...people's children. That's when I remember reading Jean Kerr, who would sit out in her car and hide, reading the car-manual section on tire pressure. It's ridiculous. The whole thing is ridiculous." Then a deep breath: "It's the core of laughter. If you can't make it better, you can laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...Laughter: "If Mary had lived on our block, we would have said, 'Of course she has time to go to the dentist. She only has Jesus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Erma in Bomburbia: Erma Bombeck | 7/2/1984 | See Source »

...Chekhovian raiding party, perhaps. Her strength is a wild anecdotal inventiveness, but her people, lost in the ramshackle dreams and tumble-down ambitions with which she in vests them, often seem to be metaphors waywardly adrift. They are blown this way and that by the gales of laughter they provoke, and they frequently fail to find a solid connection with clear and generally relevant meaning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jagged Flashes of Inspiration | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...resulting silence, however, was quickly broken by sustained laughter when an alumnus proposed "not to wear the hats for reasons of style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bok, Rosovsky Cite Advances In Talk to More Than 600 | 6/5/1984 | See Source »

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