Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kracauer's is a big, impressive, careful piece of work. The book will appeal most to those who remember such German films as The Last Laugh, Variety, The Blue Angel, The Beggars' Opera-some of the most glamorous and exciting movies of their time. But Dr. Kracauer's prose is pretty heavy; and his argument, though persuasive, is not always proved with scientific finality. Like some other psyche-interpreters-professional and amateur-he tends to overinterpret. It is interesting to speculate on what the same sort of intense look at Hollywood films would tell the doctor about...
...reaction of those blessed was mixed. Pastor Melish was highly gratified by this "unsolicited" tribute. Albert Einstein refused to comment. In California, Bob Kenny tried to laugh it off. Said he: "I imagine Vishinsky is responsible for my inclusion. I saw him frequently at Lake Success and we remarked that we were both in the same business." In case anyone had forgotten Vishinsky's part in the huge Communist purges of the '303, Kenny explained: "Vishinsky is also a former prosecutor...
Impractical Joke. In Los Angeles, Thomas J. Gant didn't see anything to laugh at when Thurman Lee Dawson gave him an outsized hotfoot with lighter fluid: he shot the prankster dead; the court called it justifiable homicide...
...each act. Price: $4.50. The records will be banned from the air and from jukeboxes. They are designed, the company pressagent explains, for posterity and such of the living as would like to be the life of the party. So the folks at home will know when to laugh, the records were made with a studio audience...
Many a U.S. citizen, stoutly convinced that only a Briton could laugh at a British joke, was unknowingly doing it himself last week. A pantomime comic strip called Louie, a month after its U.S. invasion, was already in 28 newspapers, including the Milwaukee Journal, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Oakland Tribune...