Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...read in a newspaper that Picasso is visiting the local museum. She refuses to believe Austin's claim that Picasso has been dead for years and instead tells Lee, who has never heard of Picasso, that they will go that afternoon to meet the artist. Ignoring their mother's chatter. Lee and Austin square off for the ultimate battle in the house they have torn apart. And as each savagely attempts to kill the other, their mother says Imploringly. "Now, boys, you don't have to fight in the house. There's plenty of room outside to fight...
THEROUX'S INCLINATION is obvious. Not particularly interested in the suburban soap-opera life of America or the decaying, over-exploited one of Europe, he has taken to the more exotic of the world's climates and locales. From the chatter and odor of the Howrah station in Calcutta to the more sympatico setting of Costa Rica, Theroux finds himself obsessed with a world beyond the borders of affluence and gratuitous soul-searchings. His proposition is pretty much a remedy for boredom--his own, and that of us who bother to take the train-rides with him. For what Paul...
...seven AM stations owned by the American Broadcasting Cos. have already made the change to chatter. KABC, WABC's California cousin, has been talking away for 22 years, the last eight as the No. 1-rated station in Los Angeles. "It's just a reflection of the times," commented KABC Program Director Wally Sherwin. "People have an insatiable hunger for information...
...started, as many important things do in Washington, as cocktail-party chatter. At a museum reception in 1978, Representative Sidney Yates good-naturedly challenged Paul Perrot, an assistant secretary at the Smithsonian, to prove that he could produce every object listed in the records. Yates, an Illinois Democrat whose subcommittee oversees Smithsonian funding, was curious about how many items had been lost or stolen over the years...
...chatter among the Longhorn partisans about taking on a bunch of Ivy League intellects? "Naw, I don't hype any game anyway, not whether it's Texas A&M, Arkansas, Houston or Harvard." And what's more, he was quick to point out, Texas may have 48,000 students, "but you still need a 1200 on your boards to get in, whatever that may mean to folks up here...