Word: laughter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beset by lust. Too diffident to ask for contraceptives in drugstores (where the clientele is mixed), he seeks them in barbershops (where contraceptives are also sold in Britain). But though he gets repeated "trims," he never gets a Durex. Is all this too British for U.S. tastes? Probably not; laughter knows no accent...
...five defendants, accused of having joined in that secret conspiracy, have now abandoned any pretense of a common front. H.R. Haldeman, Nixon's former chief of staff, swiveled around to turn his back on the jury and grinned as he heard his own high-pitched laughter played back in a rare moment of taped levity. John Mitchell, the former Attorney General, listened casually through one earphone, as if he wanted to hear as little as possible. The others, John Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Kenneth Parkinson, were somber...
...when Charles Colson, an imprisoned former Nixon aide, was heard telling Convicted Watergate Burglar E. Howard Hunt not to get too specific about why he wanted hush money. "This is a serious matter," the stern Sirica scolded. "Serious to the defendants ... serious to me. There will be no more laughter...
...Mary's former confidante, the fat girl who grew too big for her bitches, now has her own show, Rhoda. It just may be the best thing to happen to Mon day night since pro football. On Rhoda's good evenings, she can produce more laughter than Edith Bunker put together. Even in the lady's off moments she is more credible than Maude and almost as pulchritudinous as Mary Tyler Moore...
...cast is exemplary. To cite one player would be to slight another. No one in contemporary theater orchestrates mordant laughter with a surer hand than Playwright Peter Nichols. His forked tongue darts at everything, but his compassion is deep and pure...