Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasional use of--slap stick, What the Butler Saw becomes a fascinating Black Comedy. Joe Orton takes a grim view of the psychiatric wall-paper we all use to cover our infirmities and our sins. With a uniformly excellent cast, the play transcends its tenor of cocktail-party chatter...
...harried desk clerk (Peter Howard) is making wake-up calls and morosely entertaining the predictable series of complaints about noise, lack of hot water and general decay. (It sounds more and more like a Harvard House.) Enter a pint-sized pixie of bountiful energy and non-stop chatter. She is never given a name, though she becomes the play's main character: her anonymity seems intended to make her a sort of Everywoman. The character blends saint and sinner both with startling speed, making for a difficult role. Jennifer Raiser does not pull it off. In her earnest enthusiasm...
...track on "Coconut Telegraph" which does not appear to have been written during a Geritol overdose. In a masterful study of life's doldrums and how to fight them, Buffett opens the second side with "The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful." The song begins with chatter and shrieks from the Coral Reefer Band and sundry other studio personnel, culminating in Buffett himself hollering "Don't ever start a band!" This song will make the album worthwhile for all diehard funseekers with lines like "Hell, nobody's perfect/would you like to play/I feel together today...
...Wiesbaden turned to a more tedious task: debriefings by intelligence officers and a series of medical and mental tests. Said a psychiatrist at the hospital: "We are looking for physical signs of stress, like migraines and ulcers. We try to spot signs of depression or suicidal tendencies. Hyperactive chatter is another sign of possible disturbance...
Personality, roles and situations all work in the chemistry that induces excessive chatter. And certain subjects pull the stopper on even temperate people. Food, for example, instigates a preposterous quantity of repetitious chat. Sex? It has already provoked such an excess of discussion-functional and gynecological-that it is fair to rule all future comment on the subject may be surplus...