Word: chatteringly
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...suicide risks. The accumulation of suicide theory and statistics, though, does little finally to illuminate what British Poet-Critic A. Alvarez refers to as the "shabby, confused, agonized crisis which is the common reality of suicide." And that reality does not seem an appropriate subject either for cocktail-party chatter or for purely literary exploitation. It is more like cancer, a mysterious plague that cries out not for philosophy but for a palliative...
There is also a great deal of cosmic chatter about guilt, punishment and redemption. Ten Days' Wonder exudes a sort of occluded Catholicism, a quality that the young Chabrol detected in the work of Hitchcock, who has been a heavy and not entirely salutary influence on him. Everything is rather uninterestingly out of control here, including Orson Welles. When Welles arches an eyebrow he undergoes such convulsions that it appears he is trying to launch a great hairy boomerang off his face and into the stratosphere...
...nearly ten years NBC's Johnny Carson has monopolized TV's late hours with his facile, funny and cool show-biz chatter. ABC hoped to cut into his audience with Dick Cavett and a more intellectual approach. CBS aimed to bring him down with that old Beverly Hillbilly Merv Griffin. But neither even approached his ratings, and Carson remained undisputed king of the insomniacs. No longer. Since CBS replaced Griffin with a lineup of late movies twelve weeks ago, Carson, for the first time in a decade, has found himself in a ratings race...
When housewives chatter over mid-morning coffee at the Rexall drugstore in postcard-pretty New London, N.H., or their husbands banter beside their ailing cars at Kidder's Garage, there is little talk of Muskie, McGovern or McCloskey. Instead, there are complaints over rising taxes expected from a new sewage system and the costs of operating schools. In the paper-mill town of Berlin, Kelly's Pastry Shop now sells more doughnuts (7?) than turnovers (150?, as residents worry about living costs. "It takes two working now for a family to get what it needs," notes Mrs. Laura...
...writer, Griffiths does indeed have a weakness for overstatement and simplification. But he has grasped that the American presence in Viet Nam has little to do with chatter about genocide and neocolonialist exploitation. Instead he believes that the tragedy is the result of twin U.S. delusions. The first is that Viet Nam wants to become, and can be made into, something like a modern free-enterprise democracy. The second holds that no country, however different from our own, if given any choice, would ever choose anything but the American...