Word: chitchatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...Today or ABC's Good Morning America: sober and almost impersonal in the hourly news summaries, folksy in such soft segments as Arden Zinn's exercise class and Dr. Steve Kritsick's advice on pet care, downright gossipy in the late-night hour of Hollywood chitchat by longtime
Stan, a married man in his 30s who chases women in Manhattan bars, has his own patented method of checking for herpes. When the chitchat has moved far enough along that the woman is peering his way with bedroom eyes, he caresses her right hand, then presses his thumb sharply down on her wrist and barks: "You have herpes, don't you?" "If her pulse jumps, she has it," he says. "If she doesn't, she just laughs." Sometimes, of course, a woman is offended by his personalized lie-detector test. "I lose a few women that way," he says...
Early in the morning, executives are all business. Chitchat is kept to a minimum, and participants go right to work. Notes Rob Cornell, marketing director of Chicago's Ritz-Carlton hotel, where breakfast meetings have doubled in the past few years: "People are fresher in the morning...