Word: nattering
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...weekend, while Tognazzi is en route to his son's boarding school, lissome Catherine Spaak flags down his car. He gives her and her friends gas for their jalopy, joins them at a beach house where they natter about Sammy Davis Jr., improvise hymns to Brigitte Bardot, and listen to the recorded speeches of Adolf Hitler. During a frenetic weekend, Tognazzi nearly drowns when he goes for a swim after eating raw peppers. He competes in a humiliating Mr. Universe contest against hoods half his age, all to win favor with Spaak-a French actress so dear to Italian...
...bicycle") and Scenarist Ben Maddow has a cute wit of his own ("The world is full of whores, but a good bookkeeper is hard to find"). Too often, unhappily, the film is cute where the play was poetic, too often Director Joseph Strick permits his performers to natter what they are intended to intone. But moments of lurid lyricism survive, and vestiges of atavistic ritual. Genet is not, pace Sartre, a sick saint. He is a perfectly healthy witch doctor, and when he chooses he can cast a potent spell...
...with 70 members of the Japanese Bar Association, Kennedy paid tribute to Japan's postwar recovery, called it a triumph of the democratic system of government. One of the lawyers thanked him for such "flattery." Snapped Bobby: "This is a helluva long way to come just to natter somebody. I can do that back home." When a delegation of Socialist legislators spoke some stereotyped criticisms of the U.S., Bobby demanded to know why they never seemed to say anything against the Soviet Union or Red China. "Just how many times," he asked, "have you criticized them in public statements...
...bitterly refers to as the Second Sex, France's Simone de Beauvoir would rather talk than eat. Since she is the grande dame of French existentialism and all-round good friend of Jean-Paul Sartre who founded it, it goes without saying that there is a minimum of natter in her chatter. She can be wrongheaded, she can make ridiculous statements (America Day by Day; TIME, Dec. 14, 1953), but even her nonsense is the product of one of the sharpest and best-stocked minds in letters...
...Republican performer who has for years been packing the U. S. Senate's galleries made another oblique bid for the Presidency. Well equipped for the role, with locks as long as Booth's, 70-year-old Hamlet Borah began with the candid remark: "I do not natter myself that I can bring to you any new or startling message. "I am not going ... to indulge in what must be a pleasant pastime, that of regaling one's personal qualifications for [the Presidency]," continued the Senator from Idaho. "But . . . that brings up the most important pre-convention question...