Word: chitchat
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...pack of talkative TFs file in. They speak softly. In whiffs and poofs, students arrive, still quiet. Seven minutes go by-more people still. The spotlights turn on; the P.A. system warms up, and the room buzzes with ambient sound. At 10 minutes, hundreds of rustling papers and chitchat fill the room with ugly, roaring noise, overwhelming the quiet plaint of the antique benches that groan under the load of bodies. Sanders swarms; handouts and slow-movers clog the main door causing backflow into Memorial Hall. The room's air, warm and moist, smells of Chickwich. The Harvard monster-size...
Grandeur is not a word you would think you would need in discussing the art of the late '90s in America, amid its tinkle of postmodernist styles and the chitchat of a depleted conceptualism. But in the presence of these new Serras, you have no choice but to use it--and to be glad that there's someone to whose work it can honestly apply...
...There is almost no conversation [at the OMB] that does not involve implicit negotiation. There is almost no idle chitchat," Raines said, describing the daily tensions of his office...
Just then, Tazewell Shepard, the naval aide who was holding a telephone, called out, "Mr. President, Mr. President, Colonel on the line." Kennedy's whole demeanor changed. With a lilting, joyous tone, he shouted his greetings to Glenn. Then, after five or so minutes of congratulations and chitchat, he gave the phone back to Shepard, stalked back to me and resumed the attack...
...Henry Grunwald, TIME's editor-in-chief, received the call indicating that Gorbachev had agreed to a meeting. Grunwald, managing editor Ray Cave and I [as chief of correspondents] flew by Concorde to Paris and then on to Moscow. When we saw Gorbachev the next day, in the preliminary chitchat, he said, "What was Aeroflot like? I need to know...