Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clerk whose marriage to Brigitte Bardot's movie stand-in broke up in 1958. Despondent, Perrin tried suicide (poison and gas). On recovering, he took his psychiatrist's advice to drive a cab in Paris for the therapeutic value. Annoyed by gabby passengers, Perrin responded to their chatter with the same contemptuous wisecrack: "Mais tout (a ne vaut pas un clair de lune à Maubeuge" (But all that is not worth the moonlight at Maubeuge)-a retort all the more effective in that Perrin had never set eyes on Maubeuge...
...music is spare. It also manages to be both intricate and delicate. The vocal line is continually pulverized and reassembled-hurled at the listener in fragments, sent darting and swooping with almost maniacal power. And behind it much of the time, the brasses chatter, the winds and strings flow and stretch and blend into an uneasy harmony. The sense of unease, in fact, is what gives strength to the score, suggesting not lack of control but a roiling dramatic energy...
Loud & Clear. Yet perhaps never before had a historic event been introduced with such a peculiar potpourri of show business, mundane shop talk and excited chatter. A.T. & T. Chairman Frederick Kappel bounced his voice off the satellite to send greetings by phone to Vice President Lyndon Johnson, who eagerly took the call in Washington. The first picture to be beamed from the earth station in Maine was a TV camera's view of the American flag waving near the ground tracking facilities, while a sound track carried The Star-Spangled Banner and America the Beautiful. Scientists had expected Telstar...
...They are angry at India's Nehru for gobbling up Goa and for seeking Russian arms that his country could not afford without U.S. aid. They are mad at Brazil for expropriating a U.S. telephone subsidiary, and at Ghana's Nkrumah for his Marxist chatter...
...hopes for sunshine on the morrow, songs and subdued chatter whiled away the return to Cambridge and pleasant dreams of the day at Essex...