Word: mirthfulness
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...problem with this production is that half the cast has not picked up on the sense of mirth that overrides the bitterness. It as if we were not watching a comedy at all. Lady Windemere and her suitor Lord Darlington play their unhappiness straight as if she were a trapped maid and he her sentimental savior. The two have such a hard time with Wilde's snappy dialogue that their love affair of miscues is in mortal danger of never getting off the ground...
...year: this year's commencement speaker. While five Crimeeds furiously tried to brainstorm as to who the "crowd-pleasing women" could be (that was the only tip they could manage to get). FM sat watching this debacle for a good half-hour, chortling away in our private mirth before we called our imminently dependable (and totally hush-hush) source. Within minutes, FM found out that the speaker, while neither a crowd-pleaser or a woman, was our Vice President Al Gore...
...random appearance of the John Hancock Building, to the untrammeled mirth of the Chicagoland crowd...
...called the Hanukkah party a `Holiday-General-In-Mirth' party, would I have gotten money?" Galatin said...
These tapes show Johnson at a time when he thought he could talk openly and unctuously to the media. His wilder moments, while they were the endless topic of inside gossip and mirth, rarely surfaced in print. That time would end within a few months, but not before he had one last fling at fulsome flattery. From a call to the New York Times' Arthur Krock: "Well, Arthur, you're a mighty wonderful friend . . . and I need you now more than I ever did before, and I read your column just this minute . . . and I just thought how fortunate...