Word: gossiped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is an unwritten rule of diplomatic courtesy and prudence that officials of one government should never gossip in public about the problems of another. As the White House was reminded last week, there is sound reason for such restraint. During a press breakfast in Washington, White House Director of Communications Herbert Klein commented that he and Presidential Counsellor Robert Finch both came away from their recent swing through six Latin American countries with the "feeling" that Marxist President Salvador Allende Gossens' government in Chile "won't last long...
Thomas, on the other hand, fosters no such illusions as paradise. His descriptions are instead realistic (though affectionate), as he choreographs his way through the gossip and gallivanting, the sexual inhibitions and in discretions, the romance and rigidity of his characters' numerous lives. Their number and range of personality challenge any company of actors, large or small. But Chris Conte's cast of ten perform their theatrical take diligently and well. Conte's method of letting his actors play two or more characters in succession is intriguing, and enhances the cast's various abilities, rather than obscuring them. The interplay...
When she is not singing, she is talking. Speech, no less than song, pours out of her with the impetus of a natural force?gossip and insights, shopping lists and philosophy, sly jokes and probing questions. Once, her physician told her that she needed a tetanus shot. "What will happen if I don't take it?" she asked. "You might not be able to talk for a few days," he said. "Quick," she cried, "give me the shot...
...face it--charming as women are--they get to be a drag if you are forced to associate with them each and every day. Think of the poor student who has a steady date--he wants to concentrate on the basic principles of thermodynamics, but she keeps trying to gossip about the idiotic trivia all women try to impose...
...ardently admiring young friend and sends him home to be nursed by Mama. The doctor's prescription, conveniently enough, is a rest-cure at Bourbon Les Bains, a typically French resort for the well-to-do where the guests nurse their hypochondria with daily doses of mineral water and gossip. At the baths, Mother's attempts at strict motherliness break down under close quarters, and Laurent asserts his maturity by taking on the role of her public escort. His pride is deflated when she leaves him for a two-day stay with her old lover, and Laurent retaliates by dressing...