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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...

Author: By Nancy RAINE Reyes, | Title: HDS: Feed Me, Please | 1/12/1996 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By Patrick S. Chung, | Title: PARTY EXTRAORDINAIRE | 9/15/1995 | See Source »

...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...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Sedaris' Barrel Overflows With Fun | 8/19/1994 | See Source »

Hanselman denied he attempted to influence council members to vote for the package, and said, "I posed [the question] in an objective fashion." He said he asked council members, "Are you going to vote on the re-evaluation package?" and then "chit-chat[ted] with them for a while. I [did]n't bias it in any fashion," Hanselman said...

Author: By Ivy A. Wang, | Title: Council Passes Revised Bylaws | 5/21/1993 | See Source »

...even though this picture flirts with the Golden Era romantic tradition, Hollywood's never produced anything so openly obsessed with sex and death. Michel and Patrician's romantic banter is funny and a little cruel--many shades darker than the chit-chat in "Casablanca." He keeps grabbing her butt; she keeps slapping his face. She talks art; he talks sex. A sample exchange...

Author: By David S. Kurnick, | Title: Sex, Violence and Cigarettes on the Seine | 2/4/1993 | See Source »

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