Word: chatteringly
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...Sevran's prurient opinions are but the latest addition to the growing racist chatter in the French mainstream. A month earlier, a Socialist political kingpin in the Montpellier region sparked fury - and possible expulsion from the party - by lamenting that France's national soccer team fielded "9 blacks out of 11" starting players. "I'm ashamed of this country," in which "the whites are lousy," he groused, and would soon be fielding teams "where all 11 players are black." That echoed a comment a year earlier by philosopher Alain Finkelkraut, who - seeking to explain the 2005 rioting by youths descended...
...says a beaming 13-year-old. She chats about professional wrestling on TV, and like every other student assigned to this neatly-kept, lush park, moans about the pink rubber gloves they are obliged to wear. By noon, when it's time to board the buses, a fun, friendly chatter abounds. "It's much better than being in class," says an excited girl from Holy Spirit...
...kitchen never stops evolving - it will always be a place where art is created," says Belgian chef Joeri Schreurs. That's the sort of culinary chatter you might expect to hear in the world's dining capitals - but Koh Samui? Once upon a time, the only foods associated with this backpacker destination were hallucinogenic-mushroom omelettes, street-corner noodles and [an error occurred while processing this directive] barroom burgers. But today, the island off Thailand's east coast is heading upmarket. Slick new resorts are luring older, more affluent travelers, and in their wake has come an army of chefs...
...gaffe was followed by a series of muddled apologies and non-apologies that elevated the obscure racial slur into headline status. Then, amid speculation about Allen's possible Jewish heritage, Allen told a reporter that questions about that heritage amounted to "aspersions" on his character. Never mind that the chatter turned out to have a concrete source: Allen's mother was, in fact, Jewish, though Allen took pains to emphasize he was not raised in the faith. "I still had a ham sandwich for lunch," he boasted on the day he finally confirmed his mother's background. "And my mother...
...make you see what it looks like in sunlight. In short takes "like scenes in a film," Carlyon plunges from the tranquil present to the midst of battle and back. "All is quiet, and the place speaks to you," he writes at Villers-Bretonneux. "You can hear the chatter of machine guns and the shouts of men on the ground." He doesn't see himself as a military historian. "I'm telling a story," he says. But "I don't go beyond the facts." Digging like an archaeologist through mountains of material?histories, news reports, letters, diaries, photos?he picks...