Word: chatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford's muted delivery dulled the barbs. Invited to stop by for a chat at the White House the next day, Ford said that he hoped Carter had not taken the political attack "personally." Replied Carter with a smile: "I didn't." But one of Carter's top political aides said of Ford: "He's going to get chewed up alive if he comes in. He's a nice man, but let's face it, his were do-nothing years...
...young men from The Whiskey, who turned to me. "Alexis' sister?" he asked, "don't you like the plum cake? You're not eating anything." Except for the presence of the servant, I felt particularly at ease with this mildly pretentious intellectual crowd and their coffee-table chit-chat. The sun pouring in the window relaxed the guests, who sat on ottomans around the black grand piano...
...impulse may be part of the furless human condition. Actual buying depends on money (full payment before the coat leaves the premises), trust (as in "If Mike says it's good, it is good"), a certain amount of pro forma chat about male vs. female skins and "this year's shoulders." But when the right coat is produced the transformation of the female customer is immediate and complete. A woman who does not achieve incandescence is wearing the wrong coat-or is just spoiled...
...bells or the shiver of tambourines. The singers spin out long, pure lines, immaculate in pitch and virtually free of vibrato. There are intricate madrigals, courtly love ballads, ribald drinking songs, solemn liturgical anthems, sprightly dances. Between numbers, Director Michael Jaffee, 41, may look up from his lute and chat engagingly to the audience about the music. The whole effect is blessedly unfussy, with none of the chilly fastidiousness of those early music groups that bear their authenticity like a penance...
...regulars that almost everyone comes to know eventually, like lonely old women who just want someone to talk to and find the Place volunteers friendly, open, and interesting. Or the young housewife with kids and responsibilities whose own life got lost in everyone else's until she had a chat with one of the counsellors one day and decided to place the children in day care part of the time so she could pursue her own interests and avoid going crazy. She's called back every Tuesday since, and the satisfaction they both get out of the calls...