Word: chatteringly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...moments of silence belied the mingling and chatter which marked most of the night...
...World Series represents everything wrong with baseball, the bird episode shows us so much that’s right—except, I guess, for the violent death part. It’s history. It’s inane chatter that makes bleacher and upper deck tickets the best seats in the house—always. It’s spinning yarns about the weird and the wacky, about the crazy thing that happened “that one time” when the secure boundaries set up by the rules of sport were bent and twisted by the unexpected...
...House, a group of 5 girls sporting what appeared to be J. Crew mounted the shuttle bemoaning “we just got played.” They stared wistfully out the window as 3 males walked away with another girl. Though the shuttle was alive with conversation, their chatter stood out above the din...probably because it was dipped in bright green envy. “Look at her lunging out there.” And yes, said anonymous female was writhing against her equally anonymous man-friend. But so were the hoardes of women at waiting impatiently...
...green lawns, a place where kids ride bikes, carefree, on tree-lined streets. There are swimming pools, tennis courts and a nearby golf course. Weekends bring barbecues or softball games. And in the evenings, residents watch satellite TV, the latest episode of Friends sometimes interrupted by the faint chatter of machine-gun fire?a sound that causes unease, but only a little, like a clap of thunder from a faraway rainstorm...
...vaguely examined the images in front of me, I thought about the juxtaposition in the gallery. A room with a few elegant socialites, collectors, dealers and this woman. They calmly drink their wine, engaged in “civilized and sophisticated” chatter. She takes a merely perfunctory glimpse at the images and then returns to the desolate wine and cheese bar. Jaggedly reaching for the white wine bottle, she avoids the eyes of everyone else in the room. Perhaps everyone else is oblivious, but it seems as if they have agreed to a reciprocal avoidance, a tacit contract...