Word: pattered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...toward buying 326 acres and the Hill home. He hopes to raise $100,000 more to save the rest of the farm. Before the New York builder called to offer Hill's widow his help, she had never heard of him. Nevertheless, she said, "My heart went pitter-patter." Said Trump: "I wanted to help one lady with one farm. The bigger problem is that thousands and thousands of people are going through the same thing...
...that voice, "the Voice of Cape Ann," is flat and without timbre. His admirers describe it as a deadly monotone or compare it with Elmer Fudd talking with a mouthful of marbles. His patter is often punctuated by dead air and occasionally interrupted by some terse remark like "The peas are burning...
...Geller's eventual demise need not produce such a dire result. The truth is that, by now, much of his daily broadcast is canned. He has recorded more than 400 hours of programming, and he broadcasts these tapes in a cycle that is repeated every few months. The deadpan patter is there, and so is the music, the voice of angels, Geller's own secret voice. It is a thought that must give the people over at Grandbanke the willies: WVCA-Geller could go on like this -- forever...
...this fall, besides NBC's Johnny Carson and David Letterman, there will be entries from Dick Cavett and Jimmy Breslin on ABC, Joan Rivers on the new Fox network, David Brenner and Oprah Winfrey in syndication and Robert Klein on cable's USA Network. That spatter of patter may also be why a veteran of TV's talkfests is leaving the lists. This week, after 23 years, Merv Griffin, 61, broadcasts his / 5,520th and final show. "It's tough to say good-bye," said the genial, gee- whiz Griffin, as he taped a farewell evening of nostalgia about...
...course concentrates on about 1,000 colloquialisms drawn from both scholarly sources (Gary Goshgarian's Exploring Language) and popular ones (Rolling Stone). It covers such categories as media talk (show biz, glitz), government lingo (lame duck, on the stump), business idioms (the fine print, three-martini lunch) and cocktail patter (networking, finger food, breaking the ice). The final exam: a mock bash at which students will knock down real cocktails, press the flesh and chat up guests...