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...Letterman may find the mainstream has met him more than halfway. Letterman's hip, ironic, show-biz- hardened sensibility has, in the decade since he arrived, moved to the center of the culture in everything from sitcoms to Spy magazine. Billy Crystal used to poke fun at Tonight Show blather on Saturday Night Live ("You look mahvelous"); now he hosts the Academy Awards. Knockoffs of Letterman's Top 10 lists have turned up everywhere but on the backs of cereal boxes. Leno himself has appropriated, clumsily, Letterman-style bits (Jay too makes phone calls for people picked from the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: David Letterman: New Dave Dawning | 8/30/1993 | See Source »

...fact that the two presidents of the largest minority organization on campus could string together a lot of hearsay and blather about Epps to reach the wrong conclusion is frightening...

Author: By John A. Cloud, | Title: Life at Harvard-Herzegovina | 6/10/1993 | See Source »

...First, George hearsbad financial news--the wedding cake will costmore than his first car ($1200); the weddingreception will cost more than his first house($250 a head for 572 guests, $143,000); the churchwill cost extra. Then George histrionically freaksout (the unbuttoned button, the trademark Martingrimaces, the trademark Martin blather). Then Ninacalmly convinces George that he's beingridiculous. Then George apologizes for acting likea total ninny. Hugs and smiles all around...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Father of the Bride--A Remake With Remade Message | 2/6/1992 | See Source »

Finally realizing her indiscretion, she clammed up like Clarence Thomas faced with a question about Roe. Can't tell you that, sir; can't even estimate. Further queries got the same kind of neither-confirm-nor-deny blather one usually associates with Kremlin cronies asked questions about Finland...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: The Last Bastion of Bolshevism | 10/7/1991 | See Source »

...Editor's note: The Committee on Balanced Journalism would like to interrupt this flagrantly biased blather to present the alternative opinion of the Metropolitan District Commission, which organizes the Head. According to MDC spokesperson Peter LaPorte "The Head has become more of a family event." We now return you to our regularly scheduled diatribe...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: Ah, Bruno, Joe Hardly Knew Ye | 10/21/1990 | See Source »

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