Word: chitchatted
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...small but insignificant world of media chitchat was fluttered last week by Renata Adler's new memoir that takes a brilliant flamethrower to the New Yorker magazine. Adler is a scrupulous, usefully unsettling critic, not to be yoked with casual hit men. She eviscerates so elegantly that her corpses remain standing. But her book and its overheated reception invoke the whole delightful genre of vengeful, venomous, and ultimately purposeless, literary assaults...
...office parlance, schmoozing is not just idle chitchat but a way of advancing your career. It deserves to be studied hard, note the authors of Vault Reports Guide to Schmoozing (Houghton Mifflin). Vault Reports is a New York City-based electronic recruiting company, and the five authors of this book feel that job seekers need to offer prospective employers a confident, pleasing touch. How does their version of schmoozing differ from networking? "Conventional networking is the clammy science of collecting business cards ad infinitum," say the authors. "No one particularly likes to network, and no one likes to receive...
...President Wilson about the future of Radcliffe while listening to classical music and eating better-than-average HDS food. The real reason she will be here is not to chitchat about the current state of Radcliffe, but to promote women in science fields at the 10th Annual Student Faculty Banquet for Women in Science at Harvard-Radcliffe. So she won't have any idea it's coming. Expect performances from the Chamber Ensemble and the 'Cliffe Notes. Dining Hall Pforzheimer House, Harvard University, 6 p.m. Seating is limited to 100 students and Faculty. RSVP to Women in Science, at wishr@hcs.harvard.edu...
...brother--to approach Moynihan, with whom the Clintons have had cool relations, about a meeting to discuss a Senate race. Boxer went to Moynihan twice during the impeachment trial; he agreed to meet once it was over. Last Friday the First Lady received the Senator for lunch--"a chitchat, a little seance," as an aide put it--at the White House. Moynihan came armed with county-by-county results from 30 years' worth of past New York races...
...virtuoso of quotable quotes and absurd silliness, Ellis lives cocktail party chitchat. He's a master of persuasion and listeners become believers even though he says nothing. His language is littered with "you knows"--a question as rhetorical and self-serving as the motive behind many of his recent public appearances. In conversation, Ellis incessantly sells himself, his book and his "friends...