Word: chatteringly
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Three times a week for the past dozen years, Maxine Cheshire has spun out a column of capital chatter-Spiro Agnew's literary adventures, Elizabeth Taylor's offstage antics at the Kennedy Center, Muhammad Ali's hasty exit from a White House party-that the Washington Post and some 300 subscribing newspapers generally inter among the family pages. In recent months, however, Cheshire's byline has been strutting on the front page above scoops on the hottest continuing scandal of the year: alleged efforts by South Korean agents to bribe U.S. Congressmen...
...over Highway 611, rolled down a landing strip of a tiny Pennsylvania airport and lumbered to a stop at runway's end. For almost an hour, while the law shivered under blankets only yards away, the plane sat motionless; the only sound was the static of radio chatter emanating from people who watched from other vantage points near by. Then three rented vans, a Mercedes sedan, a Chevrolet station wagon and a Ford van pulled up to the plane, and the unloading of burlap bales of highly prized Colombian marijuana began. Two hours later, with half the plane...
...fashionable Central Park West. It was in the famous Dakota. Of course the Dakota in Hohokus, New Jersey isn't as hard to get into as the one in New York City but we were happy there. When we got inside she tried her little best at casual chatter, pointed out the local Grand Union, the Hohokus City Hall and the beautiful road the French built after World War I to help pay of war debts--the famous "HohoChemin." She also sang the town anthem, "Hoho kus Santy's Comin' Soon." We had a good laugh over that...
This question is not as flippant as Hubert makes it sound. Indeed, it has theological overtones that echo through the novel. Behind the glitter and chatter...
...Raucher's previous Summer of '42, much of the dialogue written for the adolescent lovers (well played by Glynnis O'Connor and Robby Benson) is coy chatter, polyunsaturated Salinger. Many of the big scenes, in contrast, are levelly written and directed with a certain reluctant reserve that gives them true intensity. The last scene especially, which reveals all about Billy Joe's tragedy, has a fine force that goes well be yond the modest limits this movie has set for itself. The scene belongs mostly to the man who brought about Billy Joe's death...