Word: chitchat
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Everybody talks about the weather," Mark Twain might have said, "but nobody does anything about it." For farmers, such talk is not idle chitchat, especially these days. In a parched field west of Twain's home town of Hannibal, a Missouri farmer was, of course, talking about the weather. The seven-week-long drought, after all, has desiccated as much as half the crops in the Midwest and South. "My corn was ruined by July 20," says Paul Wilson of Shelbyville. "There were too many days over 100° while the corn was trying to pollinate." Wilson...
...sailing cognoscenti along the gilt-edged waterfront of Newport, R.I., an upset of such proportions is a very real possibility. Not in anything so plebeian as boxing or baseball, to be sure, but in the patrician world of yachting, where, over the din of clinking champagne glasses, the chitchat is about fears that the longest winning streak in sports is about to end. After 132 years, the U.S. could finally lose the America...
...current Three Sisters, a production by Rumanian Director Andrei Serban that transforms the customarily lugubrious Chekhov portrait of a doomed family into a knock about farce. Actors pout like children on a stage strewn with Producer toys. Earnest philosophizing about suffering and social evolution is played as vapid bourgeois chitchat. The fondest wish of the Prozorov sisters - to return to the gaiety of Moscow - is voiced as a giggling endearment to a baby. Yet the essence of the play is conveyed with antic energy and force. Serban adroitly manages a welter of themes: aimless ambition, futile romance, grotesque distortions...
...syndicated on 50 stations around the country, usually in the daytime hours when the schedule is awash in soap operas. Typical guests include such stars as Liv Ullmann, Jack Lemmon, Rod Steiger, Sid Caesar, Phyllis Diller and Milton Berle. But a Merv Griffin he is not; no idle chitchat for Cottle, who oozes edge-of-the-chair empathy as he delves into his guests' hurts, histories, loves and divorces. Their upholstered chair might as well be a couch...
...career by means of a drug that for a certain social set may be said to have replaced the automobile as the national narcotic. No one not inside De Lorean's head can say for sure why he did what he did, and except for purposes of psychological chitchat, it profits little to guess...