Word: chatter
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Granted, she put it all together in the service of buzz, the all-important chatter of readers, especially the ones in the New York-West Coast-Washington circuit. Yet Brown preserved in every issue a large core of thoughtful material. She brought on some conspicuously gifted writers, including David Remnick, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Anthony Lane and Steve Martin (yes, that Steve Martin). And the photographs that caused so much uproar when she first dropped them in, those big gray boulders of portraiture, hit the pages like dark meteors. Attention must be paid...
This notwithstanding, the program was hardly highbrow. Dishes clattered in the background, buses drove by on Bennett St., and a hum of chatter from passers by limited any serious attempt to appreciate the music...
...well Andy Capp for more than 40 years; in Hartlepool, England. It was a comic strip sprung from the heart: Smythe patterned the beer-guzzling, bumptious bloke and his long-suffering wife Flo on his parents. Although Capp spoke in the vernacular of working-class northern England, his chatter had universal appeal, enlivening the funny pages in dozens of countries...
...Chinese counterparts chatter manically at President Clinton while keeping a 20-inch distance, it may be simply because they've taken the advice of a Chinese online guide to dealing with Americans established by the China Internet Corp. for the historic visit. "When one colleague meets another, they often just yell out their name," it advises. "It is not necessary to shake hands -- usually they just smile and say 'Hey,' 'Eh,' or 'Hi.'" (It seems a little Canadian slipped in there.) While the President might be tempted to relax his dress code on the advice that "whether in town...
...Once again the murderous drama features a troubled youth and a community in which obtaining guns is easy. Once again a high school becomes the stage, with classmates the unwitting cast. And once again there is a chilling disconnect, with adolescents shrugging off his threats of violence as idle chatter and harried school administrators ignoring the warning signs...