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...hardly your typical newlyweds. Making good on her promise to have something to say to her husband at dinner, the former Sarah Ferguson took advantage of the gift of the Oxford Air Training School, and has already spent four weeks studying for her pilot's license. Last week "Chatterbox One" -- so named by local air-traffic controllers because she chatters away on the plane's radio during lessons -- completed her first solo flight, a full circle of the R.A.F.'s Benson airfield in Oxfordshire. When she'd landed, Fergie bounced happily out of the aircraft and phoned Prince Andrew...
...fill Cabinet posts. In Norway's 157-seat Storting (parliament), 34% of the members are now women, and the Labor Party's own parliamentary ranks are 41% female. The Prime Minister has taken abuse for her feminist campaigning -- in the past, male politicians disparagingly referred to her as "Chatterbox" and "Mother" -- but today she still thinks the struggle was worth it. Says Brundtland: It was tough, but "it gave me enormous strength to know that I was leading a fight on behalf of all women." Being a woman, however, does not automatically confer success. Indeed, the Labor government's popular...
...instances Sunday, the delicate balance struck by Colantuono between purposefulness and pettiness threatened to tip to the latter. But displaying a sternness rarely seen from him in the Student Assembly, where he was something of a chatterbox, he maintained control of the meeting. Frequently imploring the council not to dawdle, he desplayed' an unrivaled familiarity with the government's constitution and Robert's Rules...
Lake Wobegon, Minn., is not on a map and is not listed in any atlas, but that does not bother the folks at the Chatterbox Cafe, who are munching an ethereal strawberry cream pie "that makes grown men cry and lose all ambition in life." Nor does it make much nevermind to the people waiting in line at Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery. And obviously they are not overly concerned at Bob's Bank, whose slogan-"Neither a borrower nor a lender be"-would cause terminal heartburn in the boardroom of Chase Manhattan. In fact, the only people...
...actors and orchestra. Stoppard enlivened his schematic political lesson with wit, and so, at times, does Fellini. In the film's first half, a visiting TV documentary team interviews the musicians and gets a lively response. A flutist turns a cartwheel. A drummer attacks the piano as a "chatterbox." An insomniac trumpeter confides that with his instrument, "a clinker is death." Once anarchy takes hold, however, the idiosyncratic individuals are drowned out by the director's spectacle...