Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Birdcage director Mike Nichols is trying a different perch: he made his British stage debut, performing in the Wallace Shawn- penned upper-crust satire The Designated Mourner. Critics gave a thumbs-down to the stream-of-consciousness chatter running through the play but praised the former Nichols-and-May star's "meticulous performance" as the cultivated cynic...
...long shadow Edward Hopper cast on American art. (It is a fair bet, though, that Hopper would have found Kienholz's raucousness and sexual satire detestable.) The Beanery, 1965, his famous reconstruction of a grungy West Hollywood bar--a little slice of hell, in fact, full of endless chatter, where all the clients' heads are clocks whose hands have stopped for eternity at 10 p.m.--has its affinities to Hopper's Nighthawks. Even the silver G.I.s in Kienholz's great antimilitarist piece, The Portable War Memorial, 1968, have a spectral Hopperish sadness as they raise the Iwo Jima flag...
...Johnson's book, specifically written on the same popular level as the Seminar's publications, has inevitably contributed to the issue's achieving a sort of pop-culture critical mass. Christological chatter pervades even the Internet, and dozens of other volumes on the search for Jesus are either just published or in the works. This week the cable channel Cinemax 2 will be running a program called The Gospel According to Jesus, which features celebrities and ordinary people reciting from a custom-tailored Bible. It is based on Scripture assembled by author Stephen Mitchell, who deleted many of Jesus' sayings...
...just idle chatter, since the group includes three people who have considered or still are considering mounting such a bid: Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey; Lowell Weicker, the former Republican Senator and Independent Governor of Connecticut; and former Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas, who ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1992. The other confederates are Dick Lamm, the former Democratic Governor of Colorado; former Minnesota Representative Tim Penny (a budget-cutting Democrat); the current Governor of Maine, Angus King, an Independent; and former Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado. The meetings are so sensitive that Lamm, their...
...clear that what they're doing in this familiar sanctuary, known to the older birds from last year, is merely setting the limits of polite socializing. As Al Pfitzmayer, a retired sheriff from Nassau County, New York, puts it,"To watch a turkey come in and hear the chatter, it's like a beautiful symphony. You don't even need to shoot them...