Word: laughters
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...mocking laughter...
...first U.S. professional production of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy was adorned by Dame Judith Anderson as a marvelously menacing Clytemnestra who turned the ball field into a nightmare-real landscape of bloody tragedy. The second night turned tears to laughter, with oldtime Comic Bert Lahr, 70, playing the Birds...
Inside the theatre these days is Morgan, a brilliant meditation and now and then a brilliant motion picture. Like the sign, the movie swoops from extreme to extreme: the first half induces rib-cracking laughter; the second, sadness sometimes savage and sometimes whimsical...
...could make laughter, but not without opening a wound. "Truth is the most valuable thing we have," Twain wrote. "Let us economize it." "To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler-and no trouble." "If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between...
...brunt of his jokes. Walking past a Harvard soccer field one afternoon with a group of friends, he heard one player call to another, "Gorgeous run, George." He recalls: "After that, whenever we talked about Harvard it was 'Gorgeous run, George,' and this was a sign for hilarious laughter." McGovern has not been away from high school long enough for his story to be unrepresentative...