Word: chatteringly
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Amidst the rumbling of freight trains rolling along behind Penn's Hollenback Field in Philadelphia, and the constant dugout chatter coming from the Harvard and Quaker squads last Thursday in the late innings of a key double-header, came the voice of Herbie Jones...
There are no answers, of course. Only hints followed by guesses. To those who want it, Mundome gives a new license for chatter about the fluidity of personality. But what the book mostly leaves behind is a rare and pleasant sense of having been taken down the garden path by a master. Timothy Foote "I was tracked for science in high school," says A.G. Mojtabai (sounds like much to buyee), a 36-year-old New York City librarian, "and in some ways I've had no literary education at all." Her maiden name was Ann Grace Alpher. Eventually...
...bemusements of living as a woman after being a man will stir chatter, but are the least important, and in some ways the least interesting aspects of the book. Morris divorced his wife only because he had to take up a wom an's identity and passport. As a "sister-in-law," she now sees Elizabeth in Wales on weekends. Jan cries more easily than James did, and is absurdly pleased when she gets an admiring glance from the milkman ("I know it is nonsense but I cannot help it"). She observes, but does not particularly resent that...
...through a men's room door. Now he has a regular office job-delivering and picking up letters on the 49th floor of Chicago's 110-story Sears Tower-and should do much better. He will probably never bump into anyone or anything, never pause for idle chatter or flirtation, or stop for more than 42 seconds at any one desk -indeed, never veer from any of his appointed rounds. If his fellow Sears employees find this paragon irritatingly inhuman, they can be excused. For the methodical new mailboy is a robot...
...edited, Director William Greaves would have had a fine sports film. What lifts The Fighters out of the special-interest category is the first hour of documentary on the preparations for the match. The fighters, the promoters, the managers, the hangers-on, all speak a kind of spiked Odets chatter that makes the movie look and sound like a cinéma vérité replay of Body and Soul. Greaves has a quick eye and an obvious affection for the more flamboyant personalities behind the sport. A reporter at a swanky press reception rather tentatively badgers Promoter Jack...