Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bestselling book in Japanese history. The daughter of a father who was a concert violinist and a mother who trained as an opera singer, Tetsuko was thrown out of her rigid grammar school at the age of six because she liked to stand at an open window and chatter with the swallows and street musicians. She subsequently attended an experimental school in Tokyo that allowed her to blossom in her own way. Her book, a tribute to that school's liberal and humane sensibility, has stirred parents around the country to calls for educational reform...
...Shopgirls," which traces the exploits of a sort of Peeping Tom manque who, caught by one salesgirl after weeks of trailing two others, is dragged along by all three of them to a teasing and titillating group lunch. While he stares dumbly at his roast beef, the girls chatter about the school they attended to learn to look pretty: "We're professionals, like models. We make the women envious and we make the men feel cheated, and that's not as easy as it sound." Just before the least attractive of the three bears him off to her apartment...
Perhaps because of Ride's presence, and psychologists surely will debate the question, the crew seemed more relaxed than on any earlier flight. Conversations flowed freely. There was less of the cryptic test-pilot terseness in their chatter. On Sunday, Ride and the three other space rookies aboard Challenger, all members of the 1978 class of astronauts, wore T shirts imprinted with their class initials TFNG (for Thirty-Five New Guys, even though six of the new guys happened to be women). While NASA'S doctors had yet to make a detailed examination of the biomedical data from...
...commitment," is too often little more than a plaintive bleat. Only in the orchestral interludes, affecting, purely musical ruminations that speak louder and far more honestly than the clamor onstage, do we hear the real voice of Leonard Bernstein, struggling to be heard amid all the earnest chatter. Perhaps it is time for Bernstein to forgo the crutch of a text, which has served him so poorly of late, and listen to what his own voice is telling...
...strain of fleshing out her background information begins to show with such chatter as "As soon as she knew it was too late to call the hostess, her [Harris's] thoughts seemed to slip into a new gear, a sort of emotional overdrive, electraglide, pantransoverride. "Luckily the next lines give us a clue as to Harris's real state of mind: "She listened to the slap-slap of the windshield wipers and though about nothing whatsoever...