1.   They bought the wine, then drove on, the time passing swiftly in a blur of easy laughter and pleasant conversation.

2.   A professor of history at California State University at Hayward, Roszak is a long, lean and gentle man who speaks thoughtfully yet with gusto and easy laughter.

3.   But her freckled face scrunched up in easy laughter.

4.   It was never easy laughter.

5.   The easy laughter, the teasing banter that lubricated the tension, is gone.

6.   The quip, an evergreen among the two families, prompted easy laughter on the terraced back patio of the Mackell home on Thursday evening.