Word: chatteringly
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...strain of fleshing out her background information begins to show with such chatter as "As soon as she knew it was too late to call the hostess, her [Harris's] thoughts seemed to slip into a new gear, a sort of emotional overdrive, electraglide, pantransoverride. "Luckily the next lines give us a clue as to Harris's real state of mind: "She listened to the slap-slap of the windshield wipers and though about nothing whatsoever...
...Vera Maxwell is based on Nora's therapist Mildred Newman (How to Be Your Own Best Friend), or if Pollster Pat Caddell's white and black beard has been transferred to the chin of Carl Bernstein. That is the stuff of columns, not criticism. Long after the chatter has abated, Heartburn will be providing insights and laughter. Forty thousand copies are already in print, and the bestseller list cannot be far away. As Nora Ephron is about to learn, leaving well is the best revenge...
...world events in the Soviet Union's favor through propaganda and disinformation, so-called active measures. Some of the KGB's more polished agents abroad have apparently been instructed in recent years to cultivate officials of their host governments and drop tantalizingly frank tidbits of information during cocktail-party chatter. Says former West German Counterespionage Officer Hans Josef Horchem: "They come right up to a man, knowing that he knows they are KGB, and with a wink of the eye, they calmly ask him about exactly what it is they want to know. It is disarming because the other fellow...
When British citizens straggled out of bed last week, there was something new to go with the obligatory toast and tea: morning telly. Two rival shows are making British television history by filling the screen, American-style, with news and chatter: the BBC's Breakfast Time and TV-am's combination of Daybreak plus Good Morning Britain...
...much local TV news, and CBS's Dan Rather has had the temerity to say so. In the Wall Street Journal he noted that local stations have increased their news programming by 300%. "The real problem," Rather wrote, "is not too much news. It's too much chatter masquerading as news." Amen to that. Rather concluded, "But most Americans still rely on the network evening newscast for their information." Wrong perception...