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McGehee's terse speech consisted of six one-word rubrics-rage, reason, reading, laughter, lingering and love-with an average of 35 words each...
...laughter: "He who cannot laugh at himself appears ridiculous...
Perhaps because of his stand on issues like the Viet Nam War, McGovern has only rarely been plagued by trouble with dissidents, and when it happens it causes more laughter than concern. Outside a longshoremen's headquarters where McGovern spoke, a brassy San Francisco redhead caused something of a stir when she paraded on the sidewalk with a sign urging
Like the authors, most members of the audience at Manhattan's Eden Theater look like graduates of Rydell High School, class of 1959, where Grease is set, and they all wallow in the golden-oldies atmosphere. Laughter cascades over the footlights with every reference to "making out," exchanging school rings, going to proms in strapless dresses, stuffing Kleenex into bras and using fake ID cards to get into bars. But behind the laughter is bemusement. "They can identify with it all," says Casey, but he adds, "They are astonished that this is the past already...
...popular Southern invention. The big man working at the gas station gets gruff when I ask him how many people he's seen going in over there. "I hope nobody does, I hope nobody votes for that son-of-a-bitch. I'm for Humphrey," and he roars with laughter. Should I believe...