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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Looking for Mr. Good Czar | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...April 5, Sherry Davis will become the first woman ever to be a full-time pro baseball announcer. The pay: $75 a game. Davis, a longtime baseball buff with training in TV-commercial voice-overs, has a smooth delivery the front office hopes fans will prefer to the gab prevalent around the league...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attention, Giants Fans! | 3/22/1993 | See Source »

Outgoing chair of the UC noted for his spasticelocution and political gab. Plans. a run at theFlorida gubernatorial race 2008 en route to theWhite House...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard's Cultural Elite | 10/8/1992 | See Source »

...fixed gaze are foreign to Robinson, who really sparkles when she meets people. She has a thrilling, throaty laugh, but quips are not her style. Her brothers and old friends insist that she can top tall stories with the best of them -- and that in a land where the gab is the biggest gift of all. Around a dinner table, she and her husband often talk vehemently and at once, taking different verbal paths to the same end -- rather like characters in an opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Symbol Of The New Ireland: MARY ROBINSON | 6/29/1992 | See Source »

Those southern boys sure do have the gift of gab. Every time GEORGE BUSH turns around, Bill Clinton or Ross Perot is chatting amiably with Arsenio, Larry King or some other TV talk-show host, and it's driving him crazy. Last week both candidates took turns answering questions from callers on Today. This week Clinton does MTV. Enough! The Commander in Chief is girding himself for Talk Show '92. Bush's aides are subtly soliciting Larry King, Barbara Walters and other chat-masters. Rush Limbaugh has been spotted bunking down at 1600 Pennsylvania. How about Regis and Kathy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can We Talk? | 6/22/1992 | See Source »

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