Word: chatterly
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...dangerous charade. If the Europeans don't go along with whatever military action the U.S. takes, too bad, says the White House. "The way to win international acceptance is to win," a senior White House aide says bluntly. "That's called diplomacy: winning." That is the kind of cowboy chatter that makes U.S. allies so itchy, but some on Blair's team have grown used to Bush's bark being worse than his bite. "The great thing about the United States is that it always does the right thing in the end," deadpans a Blair adviser. "It's a little...
...dangerous charade. If the Europeans don't go along with whatever military action the U.S. takes, too bad, says the White House. "The way to win international acceptance is to win," a senior White House aide says bluntly. "That's called diplomacy: winning." That is the kind of cowboy chatter that makes U.S. allies so itchy, but some on Blair's team have grown used to Bush's bark being worse than his bite. "The great thing about the United States is that it always does the right thing in the end," deadpans a Blair adviser. "It's a little...
Everyone now has his nail-clipper, tweezers or X-rayed-shoe story. Can-you-top-this tales of luggage and body searches have become a staple of cocktail chatter. Yet citizens would willingly subject themselves to delay, inconvenience and even indignity if they felt what they were undergoing was actually improving airport security. Since Sept. 11, subjecting oneself to security indignities has been a civic duty. But this has become a parody of civic duty. Random searches are being done purely to defend against the charge of racial profiling...
More or less the entire audience’s pre-show chatter was in Hebrew. Many of the seats were filled with pre-teen Israeli girls dressed for a Britney concert, as well as by couples with hair approaching silver who might have been their parents. Harvard students and twenty-somethings dominated, and all were speaking in Hebrew. The composition of the audience reinforced a key question about Geffen’s music: Can it be meaningful if the listener can’t understand the lyrics...
...only downside to the Olympics so far has been that the games’ broadcaster, NBC, seems intent on spoiling the fun. Perhaps NBC should change the meaning of its acronym from National Broadcasting Company to Notoriously Bad Coverage, Nothing But Commercials or Never-ending Banal Chatter. Its coverage has been, in a word, awful, from out-of-place and uninformed comments to advertisements in obscene quantities...