Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Strip Off the Bumpers. Drag racing, that dangerous pastime of speed-happy youngsters, has grown up a bit in the last few years. Most of the Pomona fans were still teenagers, easily identified by their headgear-fezzes. derbies, top hats, brightly chromed World War II helmets -and far-out chatter: "Man, look at that screamer. Like that's sudden iron."* But the 300 drivers who competed for the coveted title of ''Top Eliminator" were a long cry from the thrill-crazy "squirrels" who zoom through traffic and terrorize motorists. A few were professional racers; the majority were...
...praise Feiffer once received--"your people speak just like real people; put them on the stage and they'll sound just like real people." His cartoons and his theater share not the tape-recorded quality of real life, but the synoptic terseness of drama. His dialogue is not literal chatter, it is a precis of real conversation that takes into account the encumbrances of colloquial speech. And while real people can lie successfully, Feiffer's only exist to reveal some truth. On all fours, Richard Simons made a marvelously matter-of-fact Arnold; and Greely Curtis excelled as his Americandream...
...Jazz Version of "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying" (the Gary McFarland Orchestra; Verve). Arranger-Bandleader McFarland achieves the all but impossible by putting some bite and character into the bland Frank Loesser score. Paris Original and Brotherhood of Man are gingery with ingenious instrumental chatter; I Believe in You turns into a fine, lightly swinging solo for Flugelhorn...
...Poring over this document, Angelenos can find anything from mortuary science, avant-garde French theater and "Values of Contemporary Man," to applied combinatorial mathematics taught by George (One, Two, Three . . . Infinity) Gamow and "Flights of Reality" as charted by Novelist Erskine Caldwell. The catalogue has revolutionized cocktail chatter from Bel Air to Beverly Hills...
...imitation of the Wise Old Man of Zu rich, the late Carl Jung; thanks principally to Actor Robards. Robards has all the quick intelligence and liquid charm the author wrote into his hero, but he has something more. He has eyes that loom behind the easy smile and graceful chatter with a strangely disturbing expression, the expression of a dying man who sees quite clearly, as his whole life flashes before his eyes, that it was actually nothing, nothing...