Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...star gets what may be his best laugh in Harlem Nights before he appears. The moment occurs when Eddie Murphy's name flashes in the credits for the fifth time. This may represent the new Hollywood record for authorial egotism. It is, in any case, three more mentions than Woody Allen requires to state his creative credentials for a truly imaginative comedy and two more than Orson Welles took for his film directorial debut, which was -- let's see, oh, yes -- Citizen Kane...
...Holtz: "He's not the biggest guy in the world, but he seems to possess a lot of power." Last month a furious Holtz told the team he would resign if they ever fought again with opposing players, as they did before their game against U.S.C. There was a laugh from the back of the room. Holtz cast a withering glance in the direction of the offender, according to someone who was there. "I'll make sure you lose your scholarship first," he rasped...
...grown far too adroit to speak of racial issues in anything other than soft, almost dulcet, tones. Throughout the 1980s, Wilder had consciously shaped his persona to make his blackness and ground-breaking achievements seem almost boring and quietly inevitable. He did not disown his racial identity, tossing off laugh lines like, "How can I not think of myself as a black man? I shave." His style, rather, was to envelop the historic implications of his campaign in a protective cloak of Bill Cosbyesque banalities...
When I occasionally play Hank Williams, Jr. tunes in my room, my Harvard friends get a pretty good laugh. Hank sings about such ignorant, redneck things, you see. Things like the injustice of killers getting off free; the dignity of gainful labor; fear of violent crime; having respect for the flag. Really stupid stuff...
...Harvard liberals laugh at people like my neighbors who believe in this stuff. And my neighbors vote for Republicans...