Word: hysterias
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...balding Cleveland garbage-disposal contractor, on the lam from his wife's mobster brother, takes refuge among the Ritz's imps of the perverse. What follows is a bedlam of straight-gay confrontations. Robert Drivas directs with manic speed and lashings of hysteria, perhaps recognizing that if this show stops for a minute, it may never start up again. In The Ritz, McNally abandons the idiosyncratic comic vision he brought to Bad Habits (TIME, Feb. 18, 1974) in favor of old vaudeville and burlesque routines. Still, there are plenty of laughs left in those, whichever way you Swing...
...high school, teachers reacted to him with a quiet hysteria. He was put on independent studies in English courses, even though he thinks now he was only an average student outside of science. But no one wanted responsibility for holding back a genius, the boy who didn't just look through the microscope at onion skin cells, but also took photographs of them; who didn't just take postcard pictures, but tried to blow them up to enormous wall murals. He was oblivious to the fuss, just as he never wondered whether he would rather be athletic or glib with...
Phlegmatic Dumbos. Amanda and Elyot (John Standing) are two fiendishly theatrical people who wear their ennui with ill-concealed hysteria. Having suffered the raptures and torments of marriage to each other, they put their hearts in a deep freeze. Divorced for several years, they are each on second honeymoons, having married two dolts from dullsville. All Coward plays are divided between two sets of people-bright, neurotic sophisticates and starchy, phlegmatic dumbos. Amanda and Elyot and their spouses meet on the adjoining verandas of a French Riviera hotel, and in no time at all Amanda and Elyot are making...
...tries to pass off as a typical high school class of the 1950s. The kids spend most of their time necking at the drive-in or necking in lovers' lane. Or rather squabbling about necking, because the girls all appear to be in a state of permanent hysteria over their reputations...
...singing and the shoving of people into the water went on for several hours by dockside but the loudspeakers stopped after "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and then "Waltzing Matilda." Even the vanquished crew of the Cross joined the hysteria. Alan Bond, who sank nearly $9 million into the fruitless campaign, put on a show for the crowd, jumping into the water nearly on top of his boat's designer Bob Miller...