Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...must be condemned in the strongest possible terms. It is incredible that in 1995 a black separatist and avowed racist like Farrakhan can gather hundreds of thousands of men under the guise of atonement and yet hardly receive a ripple of criticism from across the political landscape. All this chatter about separating the message from the messenger is outrageous and disgusting. There is no separating the message this man brings. LUCI SHAW Colonia, New Jersey...
...subtle, as befits the Senate, but they have begun to carry a powerful message. At the G.O.P.'s weekly Senators-only lunches, some Republicans now avoid sitting near him. When Packwood's colleagues gather for votes on the Senate floor, they hardly ever include him in their convivial chatter. Rarer still is the consoling sidelong murmur he used to hear so frequently: "How's it going, Bob?" The message is evident to everyone, it seems, but the Senator himself, who believes collegial sympathy may be his salvation. "A number of them are praying for me," he says...
...newspapers and magazines, the Apollo astronauts were portrayed as heroes in the old mold: God-fearin', jut-jawed, steely-eyed missilemen, gazing into the skies they would soon conquer. These brainy jocks with their laconic C.B. chatter and their diplomas from M.I.T., Princeton, Caltech and Harvard were icons of stability in a most fractious decade. Americans looked across the Pacific and saw defeat. They looked at their campuses and saw revolt; at their inner cities and saw flames. For inspiration there was nowhere to look...
...just with their dates. Wholesome sex appeal has kept Hollywood purring for 80 years. But today's prime actresses-Meryl Streep, Jodie Foster, Susan Sarandon, Jessica Lange, even Winona Ryder-are a formidable bunch, serioso artists who don't fit into a fellow's dream of easy chatter and backseat romance; they are more likely to hand you a petition. As for Sharon Stone, she's gorgeous, but thanks all the same, we would just as soon survive the good-night kiss...
...bring in the stenographer for a full confession. At a time when storytelling has largely been ceded to film-makers--when Pulp Fiction causes more chatter than pulp fiction--American Tabloid is a big, boisterous, rude and shameless reminder of why reading can be so engrossing and so much fun. The secret, of course, is language. When it is used well-which in Ellroy's case means being pared down to taut, telegraphic sentences, subject-verb-blooey!-one word is worth a thousand pictures...