Word: chatteringly
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...English to be the language spoken by everyone on the mission, just as it is by commercial pilots and air-traffic controllers in most of the world. But the ground controllers in Korolyov, near Moscow, simply didn't know much English, so Russian will dominate the air-to-ground chatter. And though Shepherd has been a diligent student of Russian, his first efforts aboard the station produced a groan from the translator assigned to help U.S. flight controllers...
...about but not often seen, that turn out to have some wit and brains. For No. 4 (Bottoms), made in 1966, Ono invited friends to drop their pants and walk in place while she filmed the piston motions of their bare behinds. On the soundtrack you hear their nervous chatter as the rear ends--plump or scrawny, smooth or furry--rise and dip and bunch up on-screen. The point that we're all human has been made before, but not usually with tongue so literally in cheek. Four years later, she made Fly, in which, for 25 minutes, what...
...also leads to an excessive emphasis on issues. The word focused is used as a compliment these days, but where it means discipline, it just as often suggests tunnel vision. Political chatter to the contrary, I do not think that most people want to listen to speeches devoted to issues at all--or if they do, they quickly grow accustomed to (and bored by) the predictable positions a candidate takes. The "issue" that people never tire of is that of basic national principles and ambitions, the promotion of which, though usually couched in cliches, is eternally engaging because it touches...
...case the other way. The cycle of rising interest rates seems about over. The second half of presidential election years tends to be a good time for stocks. And technically speaking, the S&P 500 looks healthier than the Dow. So don't read too much into this chart chatter. But be you bear or bull, get your ducks in order now. We're close to finding out who's boss...
...does a good job at being British, the culture-bending trophy must go to Carmicheal's Kerner. The accent might be a little bit canned, but Carmicheal plays Stoppard's stereotypical Russian with ease; philosophical, profound and a fountain of abstract truth in a world of nicely clipped English chatter. For all this, though, he ends up being as inhibited as the notoriously uptight English; presenting the condition as something human rather than something cultural. When Carmicheal is joined with Byron's solidly played straight-man, and Knapp's desperately bright Mrs. Hapgood, they really hit on dramatic agony...