Word: chats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most of the young conscripts who stand guard at every significant intersection in Warsaw attempt to be pleasant. They seem overjoyed when an occasional passer-by stops to chat as they stand next to their coal-fired braziers warming themselves against the freezing temperatures of one of Poland's coldest and snowiest Decembers in years. But they are easily angered when people mutter that "all the coal goes to the army...
SCTV (NBC). The funniest nights on television, with TV itself the target of repeated maulings by a company of six comic assassins. Their "Sammy Maudlin Show," an excursion into late-night chat and sleaze, has a kind of purgatorial hilarity, like a Friars' roast written by Sartre...
...pale, manicured hands and finally to the angular, rigidly expressive face framed in a white collar and blue suit. French President François Mitterrand was on the air, live from his study in the Elysée Palace. In an hour-long Gallic version of a televised fireside chat, Mitterrand delivered the first comprehensive defense of his leftist domestic policies since he took office seven months ago. "Those who chose us want things to change," said he. "There must be some reforms, and these reforms must be carried out at a reasonably good pace...
...this Johnny Carson guy?" wrote a London Standard reader. "I find it very difficult to laugh when the chat-show king is earning a multimillion-dollar salary reading cue boards." The pros were even rougher. Announced TV Critic Margaret Forwood in the Sun: "To be frank, Carson got right up my nose." Said Joe Steeples of the Daily Mail: "His monologue could be in Swahili for all we get from...
Among the many improbabilities of Taps is the nonappearance of that group. Surely in dealing with a military academy that is literally up in arms, chat-chat is preferable to rat-tat-tat. Moreover, the film never decides whether it has come to praise or bury the military tradition. Its ambiguity is apparent in casting the likable Hutton as the rebel leader. He tries, but one just cannot believe he is the kind of ramrod who would, or could, take his peers to the brink of armed confrontation and beyond. What with Director Becker lingering too long over various photogenic...