Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Problem number one, however: At the Somerset Cabaret everyone sits around tables that seat six to eight; you order drinks and chat until the performance begins. The stage, almost like an old burlesque runway, projects into the midst of the room. Consequently, separation between cast and audience is lacking-alas, the evening's theatricality demands such a distance. Up close, the players' presence is somewhat embarrassing. It's as if the guest of honor has gotten rowdily drunk at just the exact moment when everyone else in the room has suddenly sobered up. Uncomfortable. If the Somerset could offer...
...issues and he was giving it a ride on a Westchester commuter train last week in a way that showed both his weakness and his strength. With typical lack of finesse, he approached the riders from behind. But when he got turned around, he lingered for a responsive chat with some, pointing to a broken window ("That's a real danger") and low fences along the tracks ("My grandson could climb that fence"). One man wearing a Rockefeller button grasped Goldberg's hand and said: "You were a wonderful Supreme Court Justice. I wish you had stayed...
...Rome in the Tyrrhenian Sea, Nixon recalled the U.S. role in trying to confine the war in Jordan and told the sailors: "Believe me, never has American power been used with more effectiveness." It was, he said, "a restrained and diplomatic use of power." Earlier, he emerged from a chat at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport with 32 Americans who were en route home after being released by Arab hijackers to say that the erstwhile hostages endorsed his policy. At the Southern European headquarters of NATO in Naples, he described the alliance as "perhaps the most successful...
Issues Clear. Confined to Washington during the week by House business, Obey, 32, is counterattacking in person on weekends, and otherwise via 30-and 60-second TV spots. The commercials show Obey in a chat with a rural constituent, stressing the evils of "corporate and hobby farming," advocating strict curbs on cheese imports, arguing the need for better health services. Obey, an unabashed liberal, tells his constituents that only by curtailing the flow of billions of tax dollars to the development of weapons systems, only by getting U.S. troops out of Viet Nam, only by limiting outlays for space adventures...
...experience as a college administrator, however, has been primarily with small student bodies. At Hunter College, for instance, he used to hold "brown bag lunches" every week where students could meet with him informally and chat over their peanut butter and jelly...