1.   As a harmless truism, it was a good laugh line even among the younger AARP members a long way from becoming retired persons.

2.   As the straight man of the Burns and Allen team, he was a master of the thankless task of setting up the laugh lines.

3.   A few laugh lines, yes, but dimples still etch cutely into her smooth cheeks.

4.   But her mattter-of-factness makes it a laugh line.

5.   Deeply etched laugh lines now add character to their faces.

6.   Everyone gets a laugh on each laugh line even though the tiny audience has heard it dozens of times.

7.   He also was known for his skill at airbrushing celebrity photographs to erase laugh lines or add color to salt-and-pepper hair.

8.   He could rescue himself with a laugh line as easily as pull a dove from his pocket.

9.   His relaxed, post-debate interviews offset the frozen smile and prepackaged laugh lines that at times undermined him on the debate stage.

10.   Her dark eyes, creased by laugh lines, alternately exude warmth and defiance, even after a tough chemotherapy session.