Word: chatteringly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...control booths from which they operate the doors and surveil the corridors using sound monitors and cameras. To keep the inmates occupied, they offer crossword puzzles, bingo and Jeopardy competitions through flyers or through a closed-circuit TV channel. "The Muslims are obsessed with the games, they chatter endlessly about the possible answers," Rudolph wrote. The winners are rewarded with a candy bar or a picture of themselves. Being a Westerner puts Rudolph at an advantage in the trivia games, and his foreign neighbors depend on his help. "Moments after they post the questions on Monday morning, the yelling begins...
...Constant chatter between me and my horse--and between me and my partner--helped us ease our way through the minute adjustments, missteps and trip-ups that went into an exercise that was more a test for us than it was for our complacent cayuses. I may have looked like a rank urbanite, but we finished off the maze in short order, which probably surprised our horses more than...
...would sit for a second and then burst open with a cracking bang. No light, no pretty stream of sparks, just an explosion. The noises from across the city reminded me of my time in Baghdad. There were big resonating whumps that sounded like mortar fire, and the regular chatter of strings of tiny crackers that sounded like a bucking machine gun. A familiar fear flooded back: that strange sense of dislocation you have in war, unsure of where the next explosion will come from but aware that it is never far away. I thought about my colleagues in Baghdad...
...seriousness. Similarly, the minimalist set (just a few boxes, champagne glasses and the eponymous fan) also keeps the focus on the details of the characters’ manipulations. The cast does an excellent job of interpreting much of Wilde’s juicy dialogue, which uses the musings and chatter of the idle rich to weave intricate tapestries of reflection about everything from marriage to the nature of good and evil (and how often those two subjects go hand-in-hand). The actors relish lines like, “Misfortunes one can endure—they come from outside, they...
...Despite all the chatter about the DPRK, it's erratic leaders and the nuclear fraternity they've apparently entered, this is a country skating on thin ice. A special report from the U.S. Institute of Peace reveals that NoKo's people are poor and starving, the resources are desolate and the economy is in shambles...