Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...devices too. Directional microphones that look like small radar screens pick up the grunts and thwacks produced by the action on the field, also a percentage of profanity that is edited out by the Profanity Man, who monitors the sound tape. The mikes also pick up some fascinating sideline chatter. In the North-South game from Miami, with 22 seconds to go and the score tied at 30-30, North Coach Ara Parseghian conferred with Quarterback John Huarte on the sidelines, telling him: "Call waggle on the right. If the ball is in play and the clock is running, call...
...Gone With the Wind, selected Faulkner, and the collected works of Erskine Caldwell. They programmed the machine with biographies of key characters. They set it for 1947 in rural Georgia, turned the sex dial to "low," and punched the button marked "1,000 pages." The highspeed printer began to chatter...
...Jersey Supreme Court felt it had power to impose its ban on lawyers as "officers of the court" under the bar's canons of ethics. As the court read it, Canon 20 covers prosecution chatter "as to alleged confessions or inculpatory admissions by the accused, or to the effect that the case is 'open and shut' against the defendant, and the like, or with reference to the defendant's prior criminal record." As for defense counsel, "the right of the state to a fair trial cannot be impeded or diluted by out-of-court assertions...
...opening scene is a country house where Edward, an essayist, and Flora, his wife, are having breakfast. After desultory chatter about flowers and a duel with a wasp, their attention turns to an old matchseller standing by the back gate. The man disturbs Edward, but Flora finds him faintly attractive. Both are alternately fascinated and repelled by him. Edward interrogates him, insults him, soliloquizes on youthful glories now defunct. Flora too interviews him, trying to find out why she feels drawn to him. Gradually it becomes evident that the couple knows the old man intimately, either in memory...
...after dark, when traffic diminishes, that Tokyo really begins to build. Bulldozers and steamrollers emerge like nocturnal predators; the smell of hot tar and the chatter of jackhammers shatter the night. In Shinjuku, Tokyo's Greenwich Village, and along the Ginza, an army of orangehelmeted workmen swarms out to remove temporary planks covering the streets, while trailer trucks roar up to dump fuming loads of fill into yawning caverns. Thousands of lights sway in the evening breeze, sending crooked shadows under the neon. At dawn, the trucks and workers disappear like cockroaches. Then the city's kamikaze...