Needless to say, Kennedy did not laugh.

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Watching the trial live on television, or standing outside the court building listening to the proceedings through loudspeakers, Filipinos did not know whether to laugh or cry, as a bumbling prosecution team ineptly set about trying to prove that Mr Estrada was a villain who should forthwith be removed from office.

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It signaled to the viewer that she really did not take anything seriously, and I surmise her laugh also told us she knew very well the game she was playing.

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She had a tinkling laugh, which, while it did not seem entirely genuine, had a musicality that caused the hearer to join her in a heightened response, like a painting that one knows to be good, although one is unmoved by it.

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Binoche did something equally untoward in Louis Malle's "Damage" -- not a laugh riot, admittedly.

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