Word: gab
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Step 1 is now complete," a portentous voice proclaims in one oft-run commercial for MSNBC, the all-news channel from Microsoft Corp. and NBC that debuted to much fanfare last week. But Step 1--putting a professional-looking news operation on the air, with plenty of glitz and gab and good-looking TV personalities--was easy. The hard part came when news broke...
...grown up on the Plains. After all, Senator Arlen Specter was also raised right there in Russell, Kansas, and when Specter reflects on some incidents in his life--say, his bullyboy cross-examination of Anita Hill--he must suspect that he might have been overburdened with the gift of gab...
Gramm is often compared to the late John Connally, another brash Texan with a gift for gab. Yet that comparison ill serves Connally's reputation. Connally was the lousiest of candidates (his $12 million run for the 1980 G.O.P. nod netted him only one delegate) but nobody ever described him as too small for the presidency, which is exactly how many who know Gramm speak...
This demographic obsession is one reason why so many shows have scenes set in coffee bars. Another, more telling explanation is that TV producers, lacking the budgets for car crashes and Bruce Willis, fill up a lot of airtime by having characters sit around and gab; talk, in production terms, is cheap. A virtue of this necessity is that it allows writers the luxury of exploring the ins and outs of characters and relationships in ways that feature films--certainly mainstream studio films--rarely do anymore...
...These people have a great gift of gab and may just encounter you on the street," Rooney said. "If you're encountered, please call the Harvard police right away...