Word: shoptalk
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...landscape. To make sure that his performance meets his own high standards, Schmitt has been working at a furious pace. Scientists in Houston still talk about the time they took Schmitt to lunch at a local topless restaurant, where they all engaged in the usual space-flight shoptalk. Later, when one of the group asked what he thought of the amply proportioned girl who had served him, Bachelor Schmitt was astonished. "When was she topless?" he asked. "I didn't even notice...
...approach to his professional world resembles Mystery Writer Dick Francis' to the ambience of horse racing (TIME, May 22). Both authors fairly radiate authenticity born of total immersion in the subject, a mania for getting detail right, and a sympathetic ear for the nuances and cliches of shoptalk...
Almost the whole book is dialogue, and it is truly a bravura performance. Higgins is a master of the colorful street language heard around Boston. Throughout the novel, without quaintness or self-parody, he is able to sustain long arias of criminal shoptalk. The reason is that he never merely transcribes. Like Salinger and Raymond Chandler, his ear is really for mental processes. All Eddie's friends use the same idiom, but it is always easy to know which one is talking...
...about 6, he goes to the White House swimming pool, dons trunks and splashes through four or five laps, as recommended by his doctor. Back at the family quarters an hour later, he often meets a small group for cocktails. Last week the Republican congressional leaders came by for shoptalk, and Barry Goldwater dropped in for a drink. Nixon normally sticks to Dubonnet on the rocks, but if he is in a particularly good mood he will down a couple of dry martinis. Dinner is either with the family or a black-tie affair for eight or ten guests. Afterward...
...midst of the shoptalk in Atlanta last week, Townsend recalled: "My father taught me when you are down and out to shine your shoes and press your old suit, and put on your best appearance." Lynn Townsend had his shoes shined and his suit pressed, and his company, now far from being down and out, made a very impressive appearance...