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...impersonal zoo it has always been. Elbows, drinks, faces and now Winthrop ties are coming at you from almost every direction. There is a huge bottleneck by the Cheap Champagne Bar where seniors can prove how senior they are by drinking in the morning while fending off the banal chitchat of leering, over-friendly marshals...

Author: By Rob Greenstein, | Title: Hitting the Champagne Crunch | 4/17/1989 | See Source »

...addresses, diagnosing their illnesses and then pretending to heal them with a laying on of hands. With the help of several volunteers, a video camera and a radio frequency scanner, Randi discovered that Popoff's wife Elizabeth toured the audience before the service began and engaged in seemingly casual chitchat. In her oversize purse was a radio transmitter that carried the conversations backstage, where Popoff transcribed them. When the evangelist later made his rounds of the audience, he had in his left ear a hidden miniature receiver that enabled Elizabeth, now backstage, to direct him to those members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Randi : Fighting Against Flimflam | 6/13/1988 | See Source »

...they wanted, even if their demands became insatiable as their addictions deepened? Or would there be some kind of so-many-grams-per- customer limit? If so, again, how would it be enforced? As long as these questions cannot be satisfactorily answered, says Rangel sarcastically, legalization will remain "idle chitchat as cocktail glasses knock together at social events...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thinking the Unthinkable | 5/30/1988 | See Source »

American broadcasters may consider British TV news programs "low key and kind of boring" ((PRESS, July 20)), but the viewers are presented with the news and nothing more. After returning from two years in England, I was dismayed by American news broadcasts with the anchor popularity contests, the cutesy chitchat, the endless stream of "live from" reports that impart little substance. The U.S. networks could learn some valuable lessons from British TV news...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Bite-Size News | 8/10/1987 | See Source »

Susan, now 22 and a college senior, was raped almost three years ago on a first date. She met the man in a cafeteria at summer school and went to his dorm that evening to watch television news and get acquainted. After 45 minutes of chitchat about national affairs, he began pawing and kissing her, ignoring her pleas to stop. "You really don't want me to stop," he said, and forced her to have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sexes: When The Date Turns into Rape | 3/23/1987 | See Source »

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