Word: chats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President cannot be effective unless he stays in the background, George Bush has spent much of the time since the election almost unnoticed in Houston, assembling the 25-member staff that will work with him in Washington. But he emerged briefly from his self-imposed anonymity last week to chat in his cramped office with TIME Correspondent Douglas Brew about the problems that will confront the new Administration and the role he expects to play...
Under the onslaught of its fame, the town behaved with mostly unruffled dignity and hospitality. But after a few patently successful attempts at informal mass communication-the telephone call-ins, the fireside chat in cardigan sweater-Jimmy retreated into his "nuclear" engineer's privacy, screened by a Georgia Mafia who lacked even the abrasive charm of basic good ole boys or the Kennedys' strident boyos. Nobody in Plains was exactly sure why Jimmy stayed away, but there were theories: possible embarrassment at Billy's high jinks, displeasure at the crude local commercialism, or maybe even advice from...
...success of the Star Wars saga, which has comic-adventure roots. Two big-budget Christmas releases illustrate the perils and pleasures of going to popular culture's sub-basement in search of material. Flash Gordon, which expensive but unpretentious, works; Popeye, which reflects the critical and sociological chat about comics in recent years, does not. Indeed, it is one of the most grievously miscalculated movies in recent memory, claustrophobic in manner, mean in spirit, downright grotesque to look...
Personality, roles and situations all work in the chemistry that induces excessive chatter. And certain subjects pull the stopper on even temperate people. Food, for example, instigates a preposterous quantity of repetitious chat. Sex? It has already provoked such an excess of discussion-functional and gynecological-that it is fair to rule all future comment on the subject may be surplus...
...reporter persists. Won't anyone just chat about the mood of the campaign? The room falls silent...