Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This air of comic unreality not only pervades the debates, but also the whole parade of presidential electioneering. Currently I have a fascination with spin-doctors, those masters of empty chatter who pump up their clients in press gatherings before major appearances. These wonderful creatures infest the debate halls, taking the spoken language to undiscovered levels of pap, hot air and irrelevance in order to make journalists do the same. The pity is that these spinners should only exist in the political domain...
...beauty spots of the world, he was listening to the rhythms of their speech and of the bands they danced to, transforming their fads and crazes into often mordant social comment. And into 500 or so of the best American songs ever written -- ballads, laments, sophisticated melodies, impudent scatter, chatter, smatter songs. The miracle of this four-CD set is that it makes a rich sampling of those songs sound so fresh and persuades the listener to hear the larky, witty words and the elegant harmonies as if for the first time...
...Mozart year" is over. And with it, the excesses that first defined the short-lived Austrian composer and then submerged his memory in a torrent of commercial hype and cocktail-party chatter...
...White House chief of staff met with top Bush operatives last week to discuss leaks, a phenomenon with which some of those in the room certainly have a passing acquaintance. Assuring the group that he assumed none of them would ever leak, Skinner asked them to help stop unauthorized chatter. Some left the meeting shaking their heads. Many of the most damaging comments from Administration insiders of late have concerned the lack of a coherent Bush re-election strategy. Stopping the leaks won't solve the problem. While the Democrats are shooting it out, Bush's troops are concerned that...
...some students just have something to say and no one to listen. In the pages of books on reserve at Lamont and Hilles, for example, readers carry on an intergenerational chatter...