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...deal with such unsensational topics as the plight of the poor and the future of the family farm. Yet TV's newest talk show could easily rival Oprah's or Geraldo's on the controversy front, largely because of its host. He's a newcomer to the TV gab circuit, if not to controversial gab on TV: Jesse Jackson...
Ginsberg and Kerouac were both Easterners who attended Columbia University and then hit the road in search of direct experience and spontaneity. They found it personified in Neal Cassady, a Denver reform-school graduate and car thief with a gift of gab and sexual electricity that connected with the boys as well as the girls. Cassady and Ginsberg became lovers while Kerouac embraced Cassady's bebop monologues as part of his own prose style. Dean Moriarty, the hero and mobile savage of On the Road, is Neal Cassady right down to his pedal foot. "He was," wrote Kerouac early...
...figure whose weakness and tyrannical urges were disguised by forced jollity. Francis Clemmons, the dear old dad of Joan Chase's lyric second novel (her first, During the Reign of the Queen of Persia, won PEN's Ernest Hemingway Foundation Award in 1984), also has an unnerving gift of gab. " 'We're walking farther into this rotting grave and shall we ne'er get out?' " is the sort of banter his children would hear while riding piggyback...
...outdo one another, they seem to lose a measure of perspective. The CBS Evening News, in particular, turned into an odd cross between PM Magazine and The McLaughlin Group, with Rather strolling around Red Square with his temporary co-anchor, Charles Kuralt, and sitting down each evening to gab with three correspondents about the day's events. Adding to the prepackaged, magazine- show look: Rather, unlike Brokaw and Jennings, taped his segments several hours in advance, so he could be seen in the bright sunshine rather than in the Moscow darkness...
...offers an extraordinary week of gab and glasnost, as two leaders and twelve presidential candidates command prime time...