Word: gab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life are battered one by one." He fails to see that Albee isn't a really political playwright, and that his "attack" is limited to the images rather than the supports of middle-class life. Moreover, Albee's vaunted satirical dialogue is far less trenchant or amusing than the gab of I Love Lucy, let alone the biting one-acters of Ring Lardner, which Albee so weakly emulates...
...professor (Fred MacMurray) is a small-college chemistry instructor, known to his students as Neddie the Nut, who "cracks the antigravity problem" by producing a substance he calls "flubber"* - lab gab for flying rubber. Flubber is a sort of daffy taffy that "generates its own energy" by a process of "molecular exchange." Sounds fishy? Works fine. When the professor drops a flubber ball on the floor, it bounces back to the height it was dropped from, goes even higher on the second bounce, hits the ceiling on the third, and on the 50th would probably sail to the moon...
...brisk, garrulous and altogether charming novel serves to trace a few more lines on the meticulously mapped social topography of postwar Britain. New to this socially useful labor, Novelist Gallie adds a wonderful Welsh fluency, quite as awesome as the more widely notorious Irish gift of the gab...
...that over a period of 20 years, Bowles has plowed through a long series of jobs that generally require the soft, sure touch of tact. What he lacked in the diplomat's pouch of tact, he made up for with a bottomless bag of ideas, a gift of gab and unswerving earnestness for his causes...
...word got out when a gaggle of fashion reporters scissored into Jacqueline Kennedy's Waldorf-Astoria suite in Manhattan to gab about clothes and to see her try on some new maternity dresses ($30 to $40 apiece). Jackie, they discovered, was upset about a New York Times Sunday Magazine story reporting that many women are disturbed over her "devil-may-care chic." A housewife, said the Times, sniffed that Jackie "looks too damn snappy." The Times also went on to lift a story from Women's Wear Daily, which reported that Jackie spends about $30,000 a year...