Word: chatters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Across town earlier in the day, shoppers and tourists stroll along Newbury St. Some carry shopping bags from expensive boutiques; others chatter in colorful dialects of French and Italian. A blonde woman wearing sunglasses gossips with a man clad in a dark black blazer with slicked back, jet-black hair. Both of them live in Back Bay, but are registered to vote back home--in New York City, of course. Politics Back Bay style...
Inevitably, they spout a steady stream of happy chatter contending that Harvard has the most brilliant professors and the biggest libraries and the prettiest buildings in the Western Hemisphere...
...cocking my thumb, I can swoop down among the skyscrapers. I can wheel by the Space Needle, close enough to hear the clatter of silverware in its restaurant. I can dive beneath the deep- blue surface of the sound, go swimming with the whale and bask in the staccato chatter of its birdlike mating call...
Certainly no artist before World War I would have thought so. The real issue has always been discovery and use, not dismissal, of the mighty energies of the past -- compared with which the fetish of innovation and the claims of revolution are mostly chatter...
...emerged in Rabbit Redux (1971) and Rabbit Is Rich (1981). A lot of readers have periodically checked the progress of their lives against that of the onetime high school basketball star from eastern Pennsylvania. Rabbit's demise seems a gloomy reminder of individual mortality. Fortunately, despite all the chatter, there is an escape clause. In his Times essay, Updike never explicitly says Rabbit dies. Neither, as readers will discover in two months, does Rabbit at Rest...