Word: blathers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...radio and TV talk shows fill the air with an oceanic surf of gabble, a big fraction of it as disposable as a weather-caster's strained charm. It is easy to snap off and tune out, but it is not so simple to elude real-life blather. Try to get away from it all, and soon a stage-struck airline captain will be monologuing about terrain miles below and half-obscured by the cloud cover. Go to the dentist, and the procedure is all but ordained: thumbs fill the mouth, the drill starts to whine, and a voice...
...close friend and defender of Vance: "It would have helped if he'd been a better pressagent for himself, if he'd done a better job of articulating. But part of the problem was actually to his credit; he's got an aversion to geopolitical blather and high-sounding vacuity. He instinctively mistrusts any attempt to impose an overarching design on what is essentially an ad hoc process...