Word: kaffeeklatsches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sides go through a diplomatic grope in search of common ground, neither expects the CFE talks to be a kaffeeklatsch. (The talks were originally given the acronym CAFE, but that was discarded as too frivolous.) It is a promising sign that negotiators chose last week to accentuate the positive. "They called for several things which sound pretty reasonable," said Ledogar of his East bloc counterparts. Concurred Oleg Grinievsky, chief of the Soviet delegation: "The very first hours witnessed an exchange of positions, rather than recriminations." Baker and Shevardnadze boosted optimism by setting a May date in Moscow to discuss resumption...
Enter her new lawn-distance neighbor. Hannah Mae Bindler (Eileen Brennan), a Lone-Star State emigree, is wearing a garish outfit, and her accessories are an unstoppered tongue and the musk of a rampant libido. Culture clash soon gives way to kaffeeklatsch. Maude reveals that her husband is off on one of his adulterous secretarial safaris. Despite having suffered the occasional infidelity, Hannah Mae claims that her husband Carl Joe "don't take a breath unless I say, 'Carl Joe, breathe...
...soaps. Says Bruce Marr, who was KABC program director when Grant arrived in 1975: "People are tuning away from soap opera to listen to the radio shrinks because they can tune into the bedrooms of real people rather than just listen to actors." In fact, Grant's kaffeeklatsch counseling has been such a smash that stations around the country, particularly on the West Coast, are rushing to clone her. Marr, now at Seattle's KVI, has hired Jennifer James, a cultural anthropologist. Station KXRX in San Jose has taken on Psychologist Thomas Tutko, while San Francisco...