Word: chattier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cities, states, counties and towns that have made pledges. Wherever he goes, corporate moguls drool all over him (and pay dearly--upward of $50,000 per speech--for the opportunity), but it is kids who get him for free who really light him up. They get brighter, chattier, taller when he's around. As he sings along with a heartrendingly mangled rendition of America the Beautiful by students playing with instruments donated by VH-1, the unsentimental general gets misty-eyed. At Colin Powell Elementary School in Grand Prairie, Texas, the kids wanted to talk about the mystery...
...plot is more complicated than this--and much chattier. Even the opening is talky. "Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic," the now familiar trapezoidal text-crawl tells us. "The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute." Immediately one is perplexed. A summary made sense in the earlier films; they were episodes IV, V and VI in the grand fable, and as continuations of an initially untold saga, they required some elucidation. But what's the need for back-story text in a tale that is just beginning? Can it be that Lucas was unable to dramatize...
...Ritz on several occasions to chat with the paparazzi and even told them the couple would be coming out after dinner. He was so voluble at least two photographers suspected he had been drinking. Another source who knows Paul well and was with him that night found him "chattier than usual...