Word: gab
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...batch of coffee-klatch sitcoms, however, no one seems to be doing much of anything except hanging out. On Friends--which has entered the Nielsen Top 10 after being moved to the high-profile time period following Seinfeld--a group of indolent twentysomethings seems to have unlimited time for gab and games of Pictionary. Pig Sty, which made its debut in January on the new UPN network, revolves around five mismatched roommates (a rube from Iowa, an Italian mama's boy, a guitar-playing layabout and so on) trying to get along in the same cramped New York City apartment...
...citizens with relatives abroad. "He was not much of a lawyer," recalls a former associate. "He disliked responsibilities and shirked any job that might entail them, but he loved to be in the thick of things and loved making public speeches." What he did have was the gift of gab. "Boy, could he talk!" says another colleague. "Whenever he stood up, there was a whisper in the audience: 'Now Volodya is going to show 'em!' The only problem was that he could never offer a reasonable solution...
...meetings in a Weight Watchers Super Start program infomercial. Mel Harris joins Victoria Principal to pitch skin-care products; Dionne Warwick offers us psychic phenomena; Ali McGraw hawks more beautifiers, all in program-length commercials. This month Joan Rivers converted her daytime talk show into a new program combining gab with salesmanship, aptly titled Can We Shop. Even Roseanne and Tom Arnold have found time for a potentially lucrative sideline: in April they will begin appearing on a new home-shopping channel called ViaTV, promoting their line of his-and-hers large-size clothing (including the Roseanne After Eight collection...
...later than those just entering puberty. The same students also slept later on weekends than their prepubescent peers. The conclusion: puberty's biological changes may trigger an adjustment in kids' internal clocks, keeping them alert till the wee hours. Next hypothesis: it's hormones that make teens gab endlessly on the phone...
Yeltsin is betting that tens of millions of ordinary Russians share these sentiments and will turn out to back him at the ballot box. By tradition and temperament, Russians have little patience for the parliamentary gab sessions they have been watching on television for a year now. They know that as long as the talk continues, nothing will be done to fix the economy. Moscow commentators have compared events in Russia with the corruption scandal shaking the political system in Italy. But if you ask Russians, they would gladly endure the turmoil going on in Rome -- as long as they...