Word: chatters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...capable Mother, the daring Young Thing, an impossible Suitor for her, a pious Burglar, a graying Aristocrat, and, of course, the "independent" Foreign Lady who can comment caustically on anything the home-bred figures miss. And, then, they all talk--Lord, how they talk: two straight hours of chatter as each character rises hungrily in turn, like a guppy at the food in a goldfish bowl, to strike his pose and horrify at least a good 1/9th of the audience...
...berries and pink dianthus and lupine and wild roses, yarrow and wild strawberry and kitten ears and vetch. Though most campers swear that the forest is a world of green-muffled silence, it is actually full of noise: the constant cry of gulls and other water birds, the chit-chatter of squirrels and chipmunks and the hum of honey bees in the warm sun, the distant buzz of a motorboat, and the whine of a power saw biting into the big trees; the drone of an airplane far overhead, the growl of a lumber truck on a steep grade...
...Alberto Moravia, Two Women tells how a Roman grocer's widow (Loren), sick of the war and scared of the bombing, packs her bags and takes her teen-aged daughter (Eleonora Brown) back to the mountain hut where she was born. There they work the stony fields and chatter away the evenings with the peasant women...
...entertainment scene, many radio stations flipped the keys shut on their studio mikes, set their turntables to twirling eternally, hired the disk jockey to titillate the teen-ager with pointless prattle. But there are notable signs that the clatter of the platter is gradually being muted. Its replacement: serious chatter...
Died. Cedric Adams, 58, portly, nasal-voiced commentator, folksy columnist (In This Corner) for the Minneapolis Star for 25 years, who once simultaneously ran 54 radio shows, seven columns and eight television programs a week on chatter, news, and an uncanny ability to catnap at will; of a heart attack; in Austin, Minn...