Word: chitchatted
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Most frustrating of all is the absence, in the scenes shown, of any elements that would seem to warrant such loving attention. We can see too clearly that the social encounters of Fran's single life are empty and boring: the chitchat, as the incredible trolley slides across the stage, is just that. We are convinced of the rightness of Alfred's choice of farce as a device when Fran's unacceptable, unsympathetic beaux parade through her living room and her crazy German neighbors scream from upstairs; these scenes and characters compose the essentials of farce, so much so that...
...stylishly dressed party of eight lunching at a center table in Chicago's tony Ritz-Carlton restaurant is about to start the second course. As white-aproned waiters whisk in artichauts vinaigrette, the guests exchange amiable chitchat. Dark-haired August Walker Pelton regales the group with an anecdote about Princess Caroline of Monaco. "She tells me," he confides, "that when anyone in their family has elbows on the table, her grandmother jabs them with a fork." In the lull that follows, Bridget Dunham chews meditatively on her water goblet, picks her teeth, then dives under the table after...
...Stevie and her "lion aunt" - is insistently naturalistic, yet Stevie is as cluttered with brickbat metaphors as the cottage parlor is with bric-a-brac. But if the camera eye too often blinks, the film's mind and heart are humanly acute. The dialogue deftly threads domestic chitchat and Big Themes: the detachment of the artist, the terrifying uncontrollability of life. And at the film's center is the simple trust binding a girl and her aunt...
...writer began with folksy chitchat, assuring his readers that both his mother and brother Billy are doing just fine, thank you. But soon he turned serious-and critical-about the man who took his job away. In a three-page letter sent to former aides and Cabinet members, Jimmy Carter broke his 5%-month silence on his successor, although he never mentioned Ronald Reagan by name. Attacking the Administration's budget cuts as "ill-advised," he warned that "an enormous transfer of Government benefits is now taking place from the very poor to the very rich." Predicted the former...
...journalism." The palace won an injunction from Britain's high court forbidding Regan from "disclosing, divulging or making use of the contents of the tapes of the telephone conversations or publishing transcripts of them." Mid rumors that British papers wanted to publish the royal chitchat, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher denounced the transcripts as "despicable" in the House of Commons...