Word: chatterly
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Certainly no artist before World War I would have thought so. The real issue has always been discovery and use, not dismissal, of the mighty energies of the past -- compared with which the fetish of innovation and the claims of revolution are mostly chatter...
...time I was in junior high, I had calmed down a bit. I no longer came home from baseball games hoarse from the incessant bench chatter that would inevitably get me beaten up in the schoolyard the next day. I no longer spat on my palm for the postgame handshakes...
...buzz of chatter permeates the overheated bus. The conversations change topics with amazing speed. A pair of women, one of them the dark-curly haired women, discuss a mysterious stain on someone's scalp, then start talking about a math problem they couldn't solve--something about substituting theta for x. A few minutes later, the dark-curly haired woman exclaims, inexplicably, "But he's a married man, with kids...
...couple together on a homey set; mix in a potpourri of news, weather and feature segments; and keep it all going for two hours. Do it right, and you'll grab a sizable share of the audience that can't get through the pre-work hours without some TV chatter percolating in the background...
...first I was disappointed when I found myself shoved aside with the wives of the people who I had intended to meet. I feared spending spend the whole evening idly discussing hors d'oevres or powdering my nose. The chatter, however, turned out to be far from idle. Washington wives follow a secret code of behavior that transcends the traditional hierarchy of big business for the men and chit-chat for the women...