Word: chattered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Help us out here; was there a full moon out last Thursday night? It would sure explain the rather odd chatter filling the air that evening. The first oaths we heard came from a grungy guy walking along the edge of the sidewalk in front of the Coop...
That's entertainment? TV syndicators are obsessed with chatter. After all, talk is cheap and popular. Soon everyone from WHOOPI GOLDBERG and Saturday Night Live's DENNIS MILLER to gossipmonger KITTY KELLEY, radio personality RUSH LIMBAUGH and even onetime Cincinnati Mayor Jerry Springer will be hosting new gab shows. Get ready for more tales of unhappy childhoods, bizarre behavior and plugs, plugs, plugs...
Second, spreading the government around a bit ought to reduce that self- feeding and self-regarding Beltway culture that Washington-phobes claim to dislike so much. Of course there is a good deal of hypocrisy in this anti- Washington chatter. Much of it comes from politicians and journalists who have spent most of their adult lives in Washington and wouldn't care to live anywhere else. They are not rushing to West Virginia themselves, except for the occasional quaint rustic weekend. But they can take comfort that public servants at the Bureau of the Public Debt, at least, have escaped...
...sheer bulk of it!, "Keillor writes. "After a year they had broadcast more words than Shakespeare ever wrote, most of it small talk, chatter, rat droppings...
...Radio invaded the home and distracted the family with its chatter and its gabble. It only made sense as a service for the elderly, the sick, the crippled, the shut-ins, the feeble minded." But the audience grows. The disabled and the healthy alike sit at rapt attention as the venues of WLT expand in whatever direction advertising dictates. For example, the The Rise and Shine Show first becomes The Blue Ribbon Shoe Polish Show and then The North Star Tooth Powder Program...