Word: chit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...himself in a society that maintains, at best, only grudging respect for African Americans." As in Mosley's other novels, the plot is mostly incidental, a prop for his rich characterizations and astute social observations. "In his renderings of a black preacher?s rolling sermon or the colorful chit-chat among the locals in a general store, Mosley displays a pitch-perfect gift for capturing the cadences of black speech that rivals the dialogue in Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man,'" White notes. "'Gone Fishin',' of course, is not in 'Invisible Man's' league; few novels are. But it firmly establishes...
...greeted incoming students, extinguishing their apprehensions with superficial chit-chat and ice cream. For the first time in college, I felt that I had some wisdom to offer and the obligation to pass it on to younger students. Moreover, I finally felt comfortable enough at Harvard to lead visitors on tours of campus and regale them with anecdotes about the QRR and Primal Scream...
However, I can't say the food has the same effect. Once I pass Roberts and chit chat with her, I enter a horribly dreadful place. And it certainly has nothing to do with the people who work there. I just think I have had enough pasta and cereal to last me a lifetime and then some, and I would rather not look at it anymore...
...boxes encrusted with summer dust are cracked open, new telephone numbers are hopelessly irretrievable, and welcome back parties spring up like fond memories of lost friends and acquaintances. At a recent Back Bay soiree, some illustrious members of the Harvard community and other assorted Boston elite gathered for chit-chat and bizarre revelation...
...obsessive narrators of these stories make them particularly suited to out-loud readings (most of them were probably created for National Public Radio). Sedaris has a masterful ear for popular culture talk--arm-chair psychology, tabloid gossip, etc. He is particularly sensitive to that time-frame known in contemporary chit-chat as "right now"--as in "I'm really interested in underwater birthing right now," or "Right now I'm trying a lot of herbal teas," or "I 'm concentrating on me right now, just me!" "Right now" captures the magic sound of a person trying to get his shit...