Word: chatterly
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...shouted at my television set, unconsciously falling into the infield chatter I somehow still associate with Odie Strain, the Blues' shortstop, "You're the guy, guy. You're the fella, fella...
...words so moved us that we ceased our idle chatter and spoke these words of regretful wisdom...
...perfidy only to find herself caught in an elaborate farce. In the third, a painter ditches his date to track a more sensitive type, who happens to be on her honeymoon. The plot mechanics don't interest Rohmer as much as the posturing beneath the would-be lovers' informed chatter and, beneath that, the hidden pain and expectations of rapture...
...Beckett play may aspire to silence, yet its characters can't shut up. The women, reminiscent of Beckett's Dublin youth, chatter on about postnuclear sunlight (Happy Days) or adulterous affairs (Play)--what's Gaelic for yenta? The men ponder the efficacy of torture (Rough for Theatre II, What Where), the memory of a mother's last days (Krapp's Last Tape, Footfalls). Their dialogue often sounds like bumper stickers for the clinically depressed: "Can there be misery loftier than mine?" asks Hamm in Endgame. But it is also savagely, and savingly, comic. As Beckett knew, all hope is comic...
...extent to which the "who is this unmasked man?!" debate has occupied the minds and chatter of Beltway barhoppers is stunning. More than it underscores the mental lethargy of Washingtonians as they steam like dumplings outside (maybe losing brain power along with water weight), it suggests a disengagement in politics by even political operatives...