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...soloist compensated for his non-funk status by incorporating quality songs "Chitter Chatter" and "Pound for Pound." Much of Hest's original work conveys themes of lost, failing, or unrequited love. However, the artist also received a great audience response to his covers of George Michael's "Faith" and Squeeze's "Tempted." One song dedicated to a former fellow restaurant employee, Tito, featured a cut of Toto's "Africa...
...night. I turned my car off the blacktop... and instantly felt, instead of the familiar reassuring washboard under the tires, a harder, sleeker, smoother ride. The road under my high beams looked the same color as the clay compound (chalky gray), but my shocks didn't jump and chitter; the tires hummed underfoot...
...home, looking around at the smiling faces of parents and children and listening to the chitter-chatter of gossiping teens, I remembered youth and forgot all about med-school applications and Math 21a. I realized something very important in life--that it's okay to escape reality for awhile and dream a little. Give it a try. We won't tell anyone...
...this book came out some months ago. Every leading culture vulture has taken his shot at it. It is still hanging in there at the number 14 position on most best seller lists. In the literate little womb of Cambridge, full of cocktail party chitter chatter, you're probably only safe if you say, "I've heard about it and I'm waiting to buy the paperback...
Wilson is skillful in combining 20-20 dream vision with auditory parody. In one scene, the backdrop carries the words CHITTER CHATTER printed several hundred times. Half a dozen or more couples are seated in silence at small cafe tables. Simultaneously, they all begin gesticulating and making high-pitched gibberish conversation. In comedic nonsense, this replicates every cocktail party that anyone has ever attended...