Word: chats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boonies that New Yorkers have not lost their greatest asset - gallows humor. The trio of Renny Temple, Patti Perkins and Len Gochman are so charming however that their hardest blow is gentlest satire. There is a visit to Cold Cash, New York's First Passionate Bank, and a chat with an ancient on a park bench who used to bet with his late wife - "Whoever goes first loses." Norman Mailer crosses the Hud son as the city-nation of N.Y.C.'s first President while a jubilant citizen shouts, "We're recognized by Israel!" The evening...
...Nixon. Said one: "It was pointless, and we told him so. He kept jiggling coins in his hands as he listened. Finally, he had enough. 'Goddammit, all right!' he shouted and threw the coins at an aide." But Reagan never disavowed Nixon, and the two still occasionally chat...
...unusually stimulating novel of ideas-and something more. It is rare entertainment, shuttling brilliantly between sandy African wastes and tidy English villages. Perhaps as well as any one now writing, Drabble can weave metaphysics into the homespun of daily life. Her characters may casually discuss Freud or chat about the latest research on the effects of heredity and environment. They also throw crockery at each other when angry, drink too much and wish that they could behave more sensibly than they do. At a time when most "adult" entertainment is a series of reductive immorality plays or overfleshed cartoons...
Still, the Boss was sufficiently uncertain of his musical future to quit school altogether. He enrolled in Ocean County College, showed up in what is still his standard costume-Fruit of the Loom undershirt, tight jeans, sneakers and leather jacket-and was soon invited round for a chat by one of the guidance staff. As Springsteen tells it, the counselor dropped the big question on him immediately. "You've got trouble at home, right...
...union pension-fund borrower; Jack Sheetz, a businessman indicted but not prosecuted for misuse of union pension funds; and some other figures linked to organized crime. After finishing the day with a respectable 92 on the 72 par course, Nixon retired to a recreation room for a private chat with a select group of fellow players and autographed scraps of paper for guests' children...