Word: titters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hold on to power. Titus features three hands chopped off, one tongue cut out, two doses of unknowing cannibalism, plus gang rape, and murders by sword, starvation and bleeding to death. Director Pat Patton represents the gore in Japanese fashion, with streamers of red ribbon, but audiences still titter as bodies heap up on the stage. Titus, a great general defied by his children and betrayed by his country, is often regarded as a forerunner of King Lear, lacking only the self-realization. Actor Henry Woronicz finds in the role such majesty, pathos, rage and ruin that he seems ready...
...never materializes. Aside from the failed attempts at comedy, the play strives to excite some reaction from an otherwise limp audience with a series of sexist jokes. Lines such as "you're my kind of woman...drunk" manage to elicit the requisite Ms. Manners half-smile and hollow titter from a tired audience...
...lover. And to her devoted friend Charlie (Edward Petherbridge), she finally plays the agreeable wife. A reverberant premise; the problem is in O'Neill's pulp-opera plot, especially the revelation of a hereditary curse that propels Nina into the noblest abortion and adultery on record. That earns a titter...
...tasteless joke about "coloreds"; yet Dick Gregory could title his autobiography Nigger, and Flip Wilson won love and fortune by creating self-mocking black stereotypes. Context seems all, or much at any rate. One might imagine the comedy team of Butz and Watt barnstorming America hearing nary a titter in places where Amos 'n' Andy brought down the house...
...President Reagan reeled off figures to demonstrate that his defense spending was comparatively not so large, reporters at the televised press conference began to titter. The President grew flustered, then spotted the cause. Nancy Reagan, 61, was in the wings with a cake for her husband's 72nd birthday. The assembled journalists launched into the appropriate chorus, with one quavering soloist adding, "How old are you?" Reagan sang back that it was "two days early." And while a few correspondents groused that the conference had been manipulated, the President happily cut slices out of something besides the budget...