Word: laughingly
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Reagan's life has rushed by at a frantic pace, which seems not to perturb him at all. Of course he tries to slow it down with a laugh whenever he can. Now and then, when the band strikes up Hail to the Chief, the President leans over to Nancy and says, "They are playing our song." He chuckled to himself, an old sportscaster, that the baseball All-Star game was played without his even knowing. Even that garish glen-plaid suit that rattled European style arbiters brought a guffaw. "Did you see that suit on NBC? I like...
...hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' on a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad-an' I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready...
...delightfully dishonorable throwbacks, we haven't had moviemaking like this since the '50s, and maybe we don't want it. But what a long-denied pleasure it is to make up one's own parodies as the film unreels rather than try to force a laugh or two at some arrested adolescents' idea of what is funny about people who are at once stupid and entirely serious about themselves...
...excruciatingly pedantic. These guys actually have a sense of humor, which is a lot more than you can say about such dogged revolutionaries as the Clash. When King screams. "The girls they love to see you shoot" or "Life! It's a shame" in concert, you almost have to laugh, and by their commanding presence on stage, they betray the happy revelation that maybe they aren't that hardened after all. Maybe Marxism can even be fun: their lyrics merely good principles to go along with, not written in stone dogma...
...member of the minority party in his chamber. He often explained his wise cracking ways by saying, "A Republican has to have a sense of humor because there bite, so few of us." And where Dole's sallies often carried a partisan bite, his Democratic foes could laugh along because he carried no clout. But now Dole heads the Finance Committee, his party controls the Senate and even Dole takes himself more seriously. He quickly learned that "you don't get anything done by beating your colleagues over the head." His tongue has lost some of its tartness...