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Record 1 1991-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Neology and Linguistic Borrowing
DEF

A loud hearty laugh.

CONT

In Lost in Yonkers Neil Simon has found himself. For all their popularity, his recent "autobiographical" trilogy - "Brighton Beach Memoirs", "Biloxi Blues", "Broadway Bound" - didn't succeed in stitching Simon the Funny and Simon the Serious into a new creature, Simon the Pure. Too often he was dishing out one from column A and one from column B: have a laugh, have a tear. In his 27th play laughter and tears have come together in a new emotional truth. There are moments in this play when you experience a new kind of laughter for Simon, a silent laughter that doesn't explode into a yuk but implodes straight into your heart.

OBS

formation procedure: "yuk" is an onomatopoeia. The pronunciation of the word imitates the sound of laughter.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Néologie et emprunts

Spanish

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