Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heeeeeeeey, faggot," the preppie-jock slurred. Gales of black laughter...
...brilliant improvisations drew large crowds, even to their practice sessions. A bravura moment came when Herb Williams, 21, a forward from Ohio State, slammed home a fearsome dunk against Yugoslavia and shattered the backboard in the process. After a moment of startled silence, the Soviet crowd roared with laughter and cheers, and one straight-faced official quipped: "Please ask your player not to perform that play any more than five times-we only have six more backboards...
...mostly the language thing," says Hill (Thelo at first spoke almost no English, though he learned fast). To solve the chemistry problem, he says, "I made them hold hands and not break eye contact for ten minutes. Soon they started giggling, then arguing, and then breaking into gales of laughter." Thelo loosened up. And when Olivier was around, "it was almost like having three kids on the set. He'd joke with them, without patronizing them. He always tried to break them...
...reader can see what Muggeridge has excluded by turning his face from the world. Things Past is shot through with melancholy, the lashing-out of a wounded man, a Christian who has forgotten how to play God's fool and a humorist who has misplaced the gift of laughter. - John Skow
...speech he sounded like a Baptist minister, declared Cliff. He's the greatest President we've had since Nixon, offered Lou. Wait a minute, came another voice. What about Ford? He wouldn't like that. There was a little more Sanka and waves more of laughter among old friends...