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...crewmen aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Nassau, it was quite a workout. "You heard a little laughter in the background when some tried it for the first time," said Exercise Leader Arnold Schwarzenegger, 34, who ventured topside to stir up offshore sales of his book, Arnold's Bodybuilding for Men. His professional appraisal: "I saw a few potential Schwarzeneggers in the crowd. In fact, most of them were shipshape...
...government officially maintains that the average Pole spends four hours queuing up each day. That estimate drew derisive laughter from most shoppers. Says one retired woman: "I spend half my time in lines. I do all the shopping for my daughter and her family." Indeed, the elderly are one of the Polish family's most valuable assets, since they have more free time for waiting in line...
...kicker Cory's place was junior Miro Lovric--a somewhat confusing development. A Columbia scribe in the press box explained: "Cory kicks straight on and Lovric kicks soccer style. So they bring in Lovric for the long ones because he has the distance, while Cory has short-range accuracy." Laughter had to be suppressed, as Cory's 18-yd. fiasco--a mere chip shot--was remembered...
...snapped the straight spine of traditional drama into a series of vertebral vignettes. The standard comedy structure, which had kept stage and screen humming from Labiche to Lubitsch, gave way to anthologies of slapstick punctuated by expletives. The story became so much dead air between explosions of pain and laughter. And so the question arises: Does anyone in movies still care about structure...
There was no laughter from the congregation of 600 gathered in the field outside the village of Eyam. Some worshipers seemed close to tears, for this was a service to commemorate a rare act of heroism at the time of the Great Plague that struck England more than 300 years ago. The rhyme's four bitter lines refer to the rosy mark on the chest of plague victims, the nosegays that people carried thinking to prevent infection, convulsive sneezing-and then death...