Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wrong Thing. Lisbon, Carlos fancies, lies at his feet; perhaps-but Lisbon is snoring. Patients, assuming that a man of his means must either be a very expensive doctor or a very bad one, stay away in droves. His fine friends, however, arrive by the dozen to chatter about literature, politics, the latest scandal; to lure him off to a café, the opera, a dinner party, an assignation. Carlos resists, but not very vigorously. In a few months, he finds himself living the life of a Latin playboy and wondering a bit anxiously if anything serious will ever happen...
John Lindsay's election as Mayor of New York will subject us to more of the endless column-inches of chatter and adulation that greet the emergence of any possible Republican Presidential candidate. In Mr. Lindsay's case, the speculation will be more idle than usual, for New York's 103rd Mayor seems all too likely to do just what he has promised--spend the next four years in the Gracie Mansion...
...first method would have depended for conference on perfect timing. The characters would have had to establish, by pause and gesture alone, a basic emotional rhythm. The surface chatter would have served as ironical counterpoint. The blend would have caught the spirit of the play perfectly...
...teachers to sing simple songs or to play phonograph records while pointing out words on big blackboard-size charts. The kids sing the words, get up and move to the rhythm of the songs, acting out the words with gestures. For example, they may "fly with the angels," then "chatter with the angels," "march with the angels," "dance with the angels." As they play out the roles, the teacher flashes the key verbs on cards, enabling the kids to connect sight, sound and movement...
...scramble across the beach and up the bluff. They walked straight into an enemy village. Chickens scurried out of their way and goats stared at them in surprise, but the village was otherwise deserted. Luckily for the mercenaries, the Simbas had been called elsewhere. Down the road, the chatter of a Russian banana gun joined the machine guns firing at the beach. The commando lieutenant sent a patrol to silence it, then set fire to a cluster of thatched huts as a signal to Hoare to send more men. The huts exploded: the rebels had hidden grenades and ammunition under...