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John Polk is a shy college boy getting ready for a birthday present from his frat brothers--a night with a French Quarter prostitue. Drinking at the Blue Angel saloon to settle his nerves, he is intruded upon by Ashbe, a girl with horn-rimmed glasses and non-stop chitchat. The two misfits somehow hit it off and end up at Ashbe's unkempt apartment, where she serves Cheerios, marshmallows, and drinks with blue food-coloring. By the end of the night, they are dancing to the sweet sounds of New Orleans radio, very pleased in their shared oddness...
...Williams addressing a reporter, so his rambling 90-min. monologue is unmistakably a performance. Even so, there are passages of naked confession. The time is Williams' declining years, and the prevailing tone is graveyard jollity, dancing at the abyss. Like authentic conversation, Nightingale veers abruptly from revelation to chitchat; at one moment Williams self-justifyingly remarks that much of life is made of trivia. The talk ranges from bitchy quips ("I just flew in from Hollywood. I was there too long: four hours") and camp badinage ("An advantage of being homosexual is that I don't have...
Something to drink? Gromyko took a glass of fruit juice, Nancy one of Perrier; the chitchat was of liters and pints, metrics vs. the old American way. But then Gromyko abruptly turned the small talk big. "Does your husband believe in peace or war?" he asked...
...spite of all the pomp and pseudofriendly chitchat, President Reagan's visit shows that what China wants from the West is goods and expertise and the money to pay for them without an alliance against the Soviet Union. The Chinese Communist Party knows that its strength is international Communism, which is centered in the U.S.S.R...
...book, which analyzes the successful management styles of such pacesetting companies as IBM, Procter & Gamble and McDonald's, has become a how-to manual for executives eager to put their firms on the fast track. It is Topic A in seminars, skull sessions and water-cooler chitchat. Excellence themes have suddenly turned up in the advertising campaigns of businesses as diverse as the U.S. Postal Service and Bloomingdale's, the chic department-store chain. On the lecture circuit, Peters and Waterman each command up to $15,000 an appearance...