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...sack." Other recent covers depicted Britain's "good and faithful" civil servants as so many goose eggs in bowler hats. To point up last week's summit meeting in Cierna, the Economist pictured Russia's Brezhnev and Czechoslovakia's Dubček exchanging chitchat while clapping perfunctorily at a public function. This week's cover on birth control is a portrait of Pope Paul sitting in lonely majesty against a black background. The caption: "What world...
...Louis' WIL, which may be the oldest commercial radio station west of the Mississippi, is scheduled to switch this week to all news. So doing, it joins a string of half a dozen other broadcasters who have decided to give up music, sunrise chitchat and daytime lady talk for news, news, news...
...material of the old Times still appears in the new. The paper continues to carry detailed parliamentary news, lawyer-written law reports and the Court Circular, which keeps track of British royalty. Top people can still discover what other top people are up to in columns of high-toned chitchat. Though demoted from the front page to the back, the personal-ad column still evokes an engagingly eccentric England. Butlers and nannies proffer their respectable services, bird lovers and wine connoisseurs seek out rarities...
Luce's fabled concentration was a function of his jealousy of wasted time. For the same reason, he was a ruthless enemy of small talk-it bored him, and he made little effort to hide the fact. To forestall chitchat, his most effective weapon was the wild-swinging question. Many a correspondent and editor sitting with him at dinner has been hit by some such query as: "Do you think Los Angeles makes any sense?" After a visitation from Luce, one correspondent reported that he was left "intellectually black and blue." Harry's whole life, one editor aptly...
Richard Lester is everybody's favorite director. For those to whom movies are "cinema" he provides endless hours of coffee chitchat about stills, shots, frames, ad infinitum. For the rest, he provides terribly bright, fresh, and--guess what--funny comedies. He helped make the Beatles more than teenage idols, Rita Tushingham a comedienne with the word "rape," and English films the prime examples of that ye-ye renaissance. When he turned his hand to filming a Broadway musical that smacked of burlesque that chitchat became more intense than ever. Now it appears he can do no wrong. A funny thing...